These 25 white men - all Republicans - just voted to ban abortion in Alabama

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

These 25 white men – all Republicans – just voted to ban abortion in Alabama

Legislation makes abortion a crime at any stage of pregnancy, with the only exception for a serious threat to the health of the woman

Erin Durkin and Max Benwell
Wed 15 May 2019 03.52 BST Last modified on Wed 15 May 2019 04.05 BST

Alabama’s new law mandating an almost blanket ban on abortion, the strictest in the United States, was passed by this group of exclusively white, male politicians.

Of the 27 Republicans, all white men, that dominate the 35-seat Alabama senate, 25 voted to pass the bill late on Tuesday.

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There are only four women in the Alabama senate, who are among the eight-strong Democratic party minority in the upper chamber of the state legislature.

Two Republicans did not vote.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/14/alabama-abortion-ban-white-men-republicans

[Guilded Lilly]

1. White Republican males are the biggest serious threat to the lives of women. N/t

[mr_lebowski]

2. Fucking Deplorables, the lot of 'em (nt)

[DesertRat]

3. Here's the picture

I'll bet everyone of them would eagerly fly their pregnant daughter, wife, girlfriend to CA for an abortion.

[walkingman]

4. The South is on the verge of becoming a theocrarcy.

[LibDemAlways]

5. A California friend recently shared a photo she took of a sign on the door of

a public bathroom in Laurel, Mississippi. It reads, "Wash your hands and say your prayers, because Jesus and germs are everywhere."

Apparently, even peeing is a religious experience in the Deep South.

[dchill]

7. "...Jesus and germs are everywhere."

But which is the cause of the most pestilence? (Hey, their equivalence, not mine!)

[oasis]

6. ACLU will sue the state of Alabama, and win. nt

[Eugene]

8. again

https://www.aclualabama.org/en/press-releases/aclu-alabama-responds-abortion-ban-bill

[oasis]

9. Legislators grandstand for fundie zealots while 'Bama taxpayers

foot the bill for the "exercise".

Thanks, Eugene for the check screenshot.

[MiniMe]

10. Their whole goal is to get the bill to the Supreme Court

They have come out and said that.