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Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(NEW YORK)  Louisiana's House of Representatives is debating a bill Thursday which would ban abortions and subject women to criminal prosecution for murder. The proposed bill seeks to rewrite the state's homicide statute to include abortion. The bill also voids any federal statutes, regulations, treaties, orders and court rulings that would allow abortion. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a pro-life Democrat, issued a statement calling the bill "radical" and said it goes far beyond being pro-life. "House Bill 813 is not a pro-life bill. In addition to the fact that this legislation is patently unconstitutional, this bill would criminalize the use of certain types of contraception, as well as parts of the in vitro fertilization process, and it could even serve as a barrier to life-saving medical treatment for a woman who is suffering a miscarriage," Edwards said in a statement. Edwards called the idea of a wo

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