BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Senate has rejected legislation to bestow human rights on fertilized human eggs, whether they be in the womb or in a laboratory.

Senators voted 29-16 Friday to reject legislation that sought to define as a human being “any organism with the genome of homo sapiens.” The “personhood” status would include a developing embryo from the moment of conception, whether inside or outside the womb.