Alabama House passes 2 abortion bills

[The Straight Story]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -

Two abortion bills are headed to the Alabama Senate after being approved by the Alabama House of Representatives Tuesday.

House representatives voted to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The bill passed 73-29.

A fetal heartbeat can be detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Both sides of the abortion debate agree the proposal could end up banning most abortions. North Dakota approved a similar ban that is being challenged in court.

Representatives also approved a bill Tuesday to extend the required waiting period before an abortion from 24 to 48 hours.

Republican Rep. Ed Henry of Hartselle says the additional time would give a woman the opportunity to change her mind about getting an abortion.

http://www.wsfa.com/story/24882601/alabama-house-to-debate-stringent-abortion-ban

[shenmue]

1. Time to bleed to death from an ectopic pregnancy...

you know, things like that.

[Warpy]

3. Well, you can always get surgery after it ruptures

even if it's illegal to get it when it's detected.

Well, if you live long enough to get to the hospital.

[sufrommich]

2. The back alley botched abortion deaths should be

commencing shortly in Alabama.

[raven mad]

4. Sad, isn't it? That much ignorance packed into such a small state?

[cali]

5. this is posturing bullshit. They know it won't stand

meanwhile, the TRAP laws they pass will. those aren't challenged as often and when challenged both state and federal courts have a mixed record that is actually more favorable to the forced birth side than to the pro-choice side.

The waiting period law may well stand and may not even be challenged. Limited resources, etc.

[iamthebandfanman]

6. yikes!

"•Require women seeking an abortion because a fetus is likely to be born with a fatal disease or abnormality to be informed about hospice services for babies"

yikes yikes yikes!


this crap is insanity.. I don't even know how someone who was anti-abortion could be for laws THAT strict. Christ almighty.

[theHandpuppet]

7. Your RW religious wingnuts at work

There are also women who may not even realize they're pregnant for at least a month. Add the waiting period plus the time it takes to arrange an abortion and yep, there's no time left for any choice at all. This doesn't even take into consideration those women for whom pregnancy, for health reasons alone, is not advised. But should the woman die during pregnancy, no worries -- just hook her corpse up to machines until her usefulness as an incubator is finished.

I suppose that at the same time the Alabama Taliban was passing this law, they were also passing laws for maternity leave, child care, health care for mothers and children, etc. No? What a surprise.

[theHandpuppet]

8. Time to pass another bill renaming the state...

... to TALIBAMA.

[theHandpuppet]

9. Related article from last week

Alabama Introduces Every Abortion Restriction it Can Think of
http://www.care2.com/causes/repro-wrap-alabama-introduces-every-abortion-restriction-it-can-think-of-and-other-news.html

We are midway through many states’ legislative sessions, which means that for many red states, the lipservice to concentrating on “economic issues” has been paid and they can move straight to their favorite feat: limiting a person’s rights to abortion and birth control. In no state is this more clear than in Alabama, where five different bills meant to curb the right to legal abortion, and even birth control, have been introduced or reviewed this week.

Alabama state politicians held a hearing for four bills earlier this week, subtly placing the hearings all on the same day, which was also the day that anti-choice groups were planning a rally at the capital. Three of the bills would change the waiting period for an abortion from 24 to 48 hours, would force doctors to tell patients who are having an abortion for fetal anomalies that there are perinatal hospice centers to consider first, and would provide even more restrictions on parental consent, including making the parent show up with a birth certificate and limiting what evidence a teen can present during a judicial bypass hearing. The fourth bill would ban abortion from the point in which an embryonic heart tone can be detected, which could be as little as a week after a missed period.... MORE

[theHandpuppet]

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