As States Race to Limit Abortions, Alabama Goes Further, Seeking to Outlaw Most of Them

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Source: New York Times

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Amid a flurry of new limits on abortion being sought in states around the nation, Alabama is weighing a measure that would go farther than all of them — outlawing most abortions almost entirely.

The effort in Alabama, where the State Senate could vote as soon as Thursday, is unfolding as Republicans, emboldened by President Trump and the shifting alignment of the Supreme Court, intensify a long-running campaign to curb abortion access.

Yet the Alabama measure is also a departure from the incremental strategy that abortion critics have often pursued: There is nothing gradual about the sweeping ban that the state’s lawmakers are considering.

Alabama’s measure would effectively ban most abortions at every stage of pregnancy, from conception on, and would criminalize the procedure for doctors. A doctor could be charged with a felony, and face up to 99 years in prison, for performing an abortion in most circumstances; a doctor could risk a 10-year prison term for attempting an abortion. Some exceptions were being considered, including provisions added to the measure on Wednesday that would allow abortions in cases of rape or incest.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/us/abortion-alabama-ban.html

[Kurt V.]

1. the point is to get this to SCOTUS. they actually don't care about the ppl they claim to represent

[forgotmylogin]

2. How is that a "limit"?

What is the rare case that would render an abortion legal in AL?

Oh. Rape and incest. Do they have to wait for an official conviction (IE longer than 9 months) to make that determination?

[cstanleytech]

3. Sharia Law...Republican style.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

4. I am sick of this, I could puke blood.

With all of the SERIOUS problems in this country - like school shootings every fucking week - these idiots CANNOT move off abortion. And I don't even think it's really abortion that plagues them anymore. I think it's the fact that a woman has the RIGHT to have control over her own body and is NOT under the control of men.

In Ohio, right now, they are actually proposing to make ALL contraceptive measures illegal.

In PA, some male rep actually went to a Planned Parenthood and on camera tried to shame old women escorting patients inside. Then he asked the public for help in identifying under-age minor teenagers who were there (praying, no less), putting their faces on his live feed.

What century are these people living in ?

This shit has gotten so out of hand, it is surreal. They are more concerned with a matter that is none of their business, but don't give a damn about school shootings.

If you are a man and live in a state where this nonsense is taking place, call ALL of your local and state officials and tell them to STOP THIS MADNESS. Your dime is paying for this insanity. That's right, it's coming out of your pocket.

Every one of your dollars is a vote, an endorsement, a validation. Remember that.

[JudyM]

9. +1000.

[area51]

11. THIS. n/t

[pazzyanne]

5. What will they do when their legislation has unintended side effects...

… like doctors refusing to work in Alabama and/ or moving out of the state. We live in a mobile society and I do not see doctors who take the Hippocratic Oath standing by and adhering to these laws. At least not the ones who value the lives of their patients.

[Berlin Expat]

6. Not only doctors

refusing to work in Alabama or moving away, but also the possibility of a not-insignificant segment of young, educated women choosing to move to states where their reproductive rights are respected and enshrined in law.

The law of unintended consequences strikes again.

And I would add.....if you're a young and educated woman - get out of that third-world quasi-theocratic shithole NOW. You can no longer count on the US Supreme Court to uphold your rights.

[pazzyanne]

7. So true!

[Vinca]

8. I'm sick and tired of politicians trying to replace the judgement of a woman and her doctor.

They give 2 shits about a kid born into poverty, but they'll spend a fortune to keep that embryo implanted in the womb of someone who doesn't want it.

[ROB-ROX]

10. I ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS STATE WAS FROM THE THIRD WORLD

This backward place is an insult to the USA. I think SATAN and his evil herd live in place like this were they can do their EVIL.