With years of imprisonment for doctors and no exceptions for rape or incest, one Democratic leader says the Senate has ‘raped Alabama itself’
Pro-choice activists hold signs alongside anti-abortion activists participating in the March for Life outside the US supreme court in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP/SAUL LOEBhe Alabama senate passed the most restrictive abortion bill in the US, which places a near-total ban on the termination of pregnancy — even in cases of rape and incest — and could punish doctors who perform the procedure with life in prison.
The largest human rights defence organisation in the US, the American Civil Liberties Union , promised to file a lawsuit to block its implementation, saying the vote showed “how little [conservative law makers] regard bodily autonomy ... This bill punishes victims of rape and incest by further taking away control over their own bodies and forcing them to give birth.”
“With liberal states approving radical late-term and post-birth abortions [sic], Roe must be challenged, and I am proud that Alabama is leading the way,” he said.
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