WASHINGTON, April 16 (Xinhua) -- A new near-total abortion ban in the U.S. state of Alabama signals a conservative tilt in many parts of the United States, at a time when people on the left and right are increasingly divided, experts said. On Wednesday, Kay Ivey, the state's governo...
Alabama in recent years has passed several abortion restrictions and seen them struck down by the federal courts. Marshall said the state was ordered to pay $1.7 million to Planned Parenthood and the ACLU after their successful challenge to a law requiring abortion providers to have hospital admitt...
"Despite the best efforts of abortion proponents, this bill will become law because Alabamians stand firmly on the side of life," added the Republican senator. The bill will now go to Republican Governor Kay Ivey, who is a strong opponent of abortion, but has refused to comment...
Collins, who sponsored the state's stringent abortion ban, said she thought any law exempting embryos from legal protections might be found unconstitutional under the 2018 amendment. Changing the constitution, she said, is a longer conversation. "It's very divisive," she said. "Everybody has v...
Down in Alabama, a state where people like Roy Moore still have swaths of supporters, oppressive political forces have ensured the passing of what is effectively a near-total abortion ban. ACLU @ACLU ·Follow We’ll keep saying this. 10:37 AM · May 15, 2019 1.6K Reply Copy link Read ...
Many recent bills ban abortion after 6 weeks – before most women are even aware they are pregnant — and Alabama’s law constitutes an outright ban at any stage. But women will always seek out a way to end an unwanted pregnancy — the question is whether they can do so safely. In cou...
An Alabama lawmaker who voted against the state’s controversial ban on nearly all abortions criticized the measure in a column for Elle on Thursday, saying it is time for women to “rise up.” State Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison, one of eight Democrats who
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“This is absolutely part of the antis’ long campaign to perpetuate abortion stigma and to normalize that an embryo and a fetus are equal to a living, breathing human being walking around,” Smith said. But Mary Zieger, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, who has publ...
Late Tuesday, Alabama lawmakersvoted ina ban on almost all abortions in the state, even in cases of rape or incest. Gov. Kay Ivey signed it Wednesday, making it thestrictest law in the nation—and a potential threat to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision making abortion legal ...