N.C. Republicans Introduce Bill Allowing Men to Kill Women For Using IUDs

North Carolina Republicans have introduced an extremist anti-abortion bill to amend their state constitution to make it murder to harm a fertilized egg. The bill opens the door to legalizing violence against women simply for using an IUD as birth control.
The Bill, H1232 was authored by Rep. Keith Kidwell (R-Beaufort) and is titled:
AN ACT TO AMEND THE NORTH CAROLINA CONSTITUTION TO DECLARE THAT A DISTINCT AND SEPARATE HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT THE MOMENT OF FERTILIZATION AND SHALL BE HELD INVIOLATE AS AN INDIVIDUAL PERSON AND PROTECTED BY THE LAWS OF THIS STATE FROM THE MOMENT OF FERTILIZATION UNTIL NATURAL DEATH, SO LONG AS THAT PERSON IS NOT CONVICTED OF A CAPITAL OFFENSE.
If passed it would grant personhood to fertilized eggs North Carolina, even before the egg has implanted in the uterus, and therefore classify harming a fertilized egg as homicide.
The bill calls intent to receive or seek out any procedure that could harm a fertilized egg—which could include abortion, IVF, or even using an IUD birth control implant, since an IUD prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus—attempted murder, while actually terminating the egg would be classified as first degree murder, and could result in the death penalty.
The bill does not offer any protection for women who undergo a procedure to remove an ectopic pregnancy, which is a life-threatening condition where a fertilized egg implants in the Fallopian tube instead of the uterus. If the egg is not removed the Fallopian tube will rupture, causing the woman to bleed out. Since the fertilized egg would be harmed in this procedure, this bill would likely make it illegal for doctors to treat ectopic pregnancy, condemning women to death.
The bill also opens to the door for individuals to claim defense of a human life by killing or harming women who have terminated, or declare their intent to terminate a fertilized egg, in the same manner that killing someone who was in the act of committing murder could be deemed justifiable.
This section of the bill’s text reads, “Any person has the right to defend his or her own life or the life of another person, even by the use of deadly force if necessary, from willful destruction by another person.”
Such a law would give a green light to abusive partners to murder women and claim it to be justifiable under this law for something as simple as using an IUD.
The bill has almost zero chance of actually passing, but North Carolina now joins Idaho, Tennessee, Iowa, Georgia, and other states with Republican legislatures that have advocated for extremist anti-abortion laws that not only restrict abortion access, but also target women with violence simply for seeking out basic reproductive healthcare.

Here is the text of the bill and a copy:
It is a matter of indisputable scientific fact that a distinct and separate human life begins at the moment of fertilization. As such, that new human life is recognized by the State as an individual person, entitled to the protection of the laws of this State from the moment of fertilization until the moment of natural death.