Republican lawmakers are considering a proposal to clarify that medical professionals can remove a miscarried baby without violating state abortion law.

The bill would amend state law “to except from the definition of abortion a physician’s performance of a medical procedure or treatment designed or intended to prevent the death of a pregnant woman and not designed or intended to kill the unborn child.”

This would include inducing labor or performing a C-section “due to a medical emergency or the removal of a dead embryo or dead fetus, or an ectopic, anembryonic, or molar pregnancy, which results in injury to or death of the woman’s unborn child” if the doctor “makes reasonable medical efforts” to preserve both lives.

One of the sponsors of the bill said changing the language would help people who suffer a miscarriage and oppose abortion.

“The idea that a woman getting treatment for miscarriage is in the same category as another woman who’s intentionally ending a viable child at four months [of pregnancy] in this state is not the same thing,” Republican state Senator Romaine Quinn said, according to Wisconsin Public Radio. “And it’s insulting, frankly, to say that’s the same thing.”

“Someone who wanted a child and [miscarried] is much different than someone who goes into a Planned Parenthood clinic to end a viable pregnancy at four months in the state,” Quinn said.

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, pro-abortion groups stoked fears that women who were suffering miscarriages might not be able to be treated. This bill could thwart such efforts in Wisconsin by ensuring pro-abortion doctors do not have any defense for not treating a woman suffering from a miscarriage.

At the same time, lawmakers in the Badger State must also direct their attention toward preventing abortion. Currently, abortion is legalized by judicial fiat up until 21 weeks gestation. This covers practically every abortion, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The legislation can be a victory for clarifying any murkiness in the law, but the real battle will be protecting innocent preborn babies from being killed in the womb.