Reply To: Attack on Abortion Law
Alabama is proposing a law that would make carrying out an abortion at any stage of the pregnancy punishable by up to 99 years in jail. A doctor would commit a Class A felony if they were to perform an abortion.
The strict abortion ban would even criminalise performing abortions in cases of rape and incest. The legislation would only allow abortions in instances where there is “a serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother”.
The bill also equates legalised abortion likened having your pregnancy terminated to the Nazi campaign of extermination that led to the mass murders of Jews and others during the Holocaust.
The purpose of all these constitutionally illegal state laws against abortion is to channel court cases up to the US Supreme Court where it is expected that the now right-wing balance of it will reverse the Roe V Wade ruling.
