Listen to this articleAlabama is preparing to present a new law and it would make carrying out an abortion at any stage of the pregnancy punishable by 10 to 99 years in jail. The strict abortion ban has been branded a death sentence for women. It would even criminalize performing abortions in cases of rape and incest. The Alabama politicians introduced the new legislation on Tuesday. It will just allow abortions in instances where there is a serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother. The bill also equates legalized abortion to some of history’s gravest atrocities.
The legislation pointed out that More than 50 million babies have been aborted in the United States since the Roe decision in 1973. At least 3-times the number who had killed in German death camps, Chinese purges, Stalin’s gulags, Cambodian killing fields, and the Rwandan genocide combined. The bill has more than 60 co-sponsors in the 105-member Alabama House of Representatives. It means a doctor will fall into the ‘Class A’ felony if they were to perform an abortion. It would ban all abortions, even those using prescription drugs. A Republican representative Terri Collins said, “It simply criminalizes abortion. Hopefully, it takes it all the way to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade”.
Collins said the entire point is to get the courts to relook at this issue. She added, “I think people are seeing a possibility that the Supreme Court might have a more conservative-leaning balance”. The landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide in 1973 can be overturned or radically undermined with new conservative justices, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh. The President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast, Staci Fox mentioned it as “death sentence for women across this state. These bans are blatantly unconstitutional and lawmakers know it, they just don’t care. Alabamians are just pawns in this political game to challenge access to safe, legal abortion nationally”.
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