While states across the South push to pass “heartbeat bills,” banning abortion after six weeks, Alabama legislators next week may get a bill seeking an outright ban on abortions as soon as conception can be proved.

Eric Johnston, an attorney and member of Alabama Pro-Life Coalition, helped draft the bill on the outright ban. He said one or more legislators will propose the bill next week banning abortion outright, without any rape or incest caveats. The bill would make it a crime to perform or aid a person in getting an abortion, he said. Johnston did not provide a copy of the bill to AL.com.

Mississippi this month enacted a law banning abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat. Georgia and Tennessee both have similar bills pending in their legislatures.

“We’ve never introduced a bill [in Alabama] that would outlaw abortion because it didn’t seem a reasonable thing to do,” Johnston said.

But then Alabama voters in November approved Amendment 2, which states an unborn child has rights under Alabama law. “For the first time in 46 years there’s a reasonable belief that Roe v. Wade could be reversed. That right now is the time,” Johnston said.

The “heartbeat" bills in the other states ban abortions at the detection of a fetal heartbeat, usually at around six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant. Johnston’s bill would ban abortions at the first detection of conception - as early as two weeks.

The first heartbeat bill was introduced in Ohio in 2011, but failed to get signed into law. North Dakota was the first state to succeed in passing a bill banning abortions at the detection of a fetal heartbeat in 2013, but the bill was struck down in federal court. Since then, dozens similar “heartbeat bills” have been proposed. In the last month, at least three fetal heartbeat bills have been proposed in the South, including Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi. Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed the “heartbeat bill” into law on March 21. Many Alabama patients travel to abortion clinics in Mississippi and Georgia for care.

Johnston said Alabama Pro-Life Coalition had no reason to introduce a six-week ban because they are using the existing definition in the Alabama homicide statute that would recognize a life at the point of detectable conception.

“Our bill is two weeks,” Johnston said. “When you can prove the woman is pregnant. A man and woman can have sex and you can take her straight into a clinic and determine an egg and sperm came together.”

Randall Marshall, executive director of the ACLU in Alabama, said they would fight any abortion ban that came before the legislature. The ACLU and Planned Parenthood challenged an abortion requirement in 2013 that would have mandated abortion providers in Alabama have admitting privileges at local hospitals. Marshall said the suit ended up costing taxpayers $1.7 million in legal fees. Marshall said abortion ban bills are doomed to fail as long as Roe. v. Wade is still law of the land.

“If you place this in the entire context of the last several years, there has been repeated attacks throughout the South to come up with ways to restrict access to abortion and to that extent sure I understand folks being nervous about the prospects,” Marshall said. “So far all of the attempts have been unsuccessful and have been enjoined by the federal courts and will continue to be enjoined the federal courts.”

Johnston said he doesn’t know who will sponsor the bill, but estimated it would be filed in the legislature next Tuesday.