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The Texas Senate approved a child support proposal earlier this month, and lawmakers introduced proposals this year in Missouri, Montana, Pennsylvania and Virginia, according to an Associated Press analysis using theThe bill advancing in Florida would allow parents to file lawsuits over the wrongful death of a embryo or fetus at any stage of pregnancy, and juries could award monetary damages for the wages a fetus would have earned, according to the bill’s sponsor.

The bill has cleared the full House and was approved by its second Senate committee Thursday, though its third and final committee hearing has yet to be scheduled.Florida is among six states that do not allow lawsuits over the wrongful death of a fetus, according to a legislative analysis. Kansas already has a law like the one Florida is considering.In Florida, sponsoring Republican Sen. Erin Grall told her colleagues the measure “is not about abortion.”

“It’s not a secret. Everybody in the room knows where I stand on life,” Grall said. “To me this is about parity in our civil justice system.”Critics see both the Florida and Kansas proposals as part of an effort to move from allowing states to ban abortion — as the U.S. Supreme Court did in its 2022 Dobbs decision — to outlawing abortion across the nation as a violation of a fetus’ or embryo’s constitutional rights.

Mary Ziegler, a University of California, Davis law professor who’s published six books in the past 10 years on abortion law and the history of U.S. abortion policy, said this year’s Florida measure aligns with a “pretty well-defined and very public playbook” to build a legal framework for a national abortion ban.

“It’s about setting a precedent for recognizing fetal rights in one context being used to recognize fetal rights constitutionally,” she said.Tensions rose and emotions flared as the hours dragged on into early Wednesday morning. House Republicans are working to push

through a gauntlet of committees and mounting opposition from Democrats, advocacy groups and even some wary Republicans themselves.Right from the start, one meeting was immediately disrupted by protesters shouting down what the panel’s top Democrat called “cruel” cuts to Medicaid.

“People feel very strong because they know they’re losing their health care,” said Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., on the Energy & Commerce Committee, Tuesday afternoon.And on it went. As midnight passed, two panels were still going, processing more than 100 amendments from Democrats that were largely failing, as Republicans marched ahead with their plan.