Courtney AndrewsInstitute for Human Rights (IHR) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Anthropology Department at the University of AlabamaRoutledgeAnthropology Now
The Georgia law recognises afetusas a person, which means it could be considered murder. However, it leaves open the question of who would be penalised for an abortion – the person ending their pregnancy or the doctor performing one. In Georgia, the penalty for murder is life...
the bill into law, as expected, it would likely pose a direct challenge to roe v. wade . de-facto abortion bans have taken hold in multiple states in recent months, but this particularly aggressive and particularly cruel measure gives a clear preview of what the anti-abortion movement w...
The Alabama law would make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion, and even victims of rape and incest would not be permitted to terminate their pregnancies. The ban is the latest in a trend toward more restrictive abortion policies, with the U.S. states of Kentucky, Ohio, Geor...
“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...
Image:Some supporters of abortion rights dressed as characters from The Handmaid's Tale "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 fertility clinic and hospital in the Alabama case could ask the court to reconsider the decision or ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the matter if they believe there is a conflict with federal law. The Alabama Supreme Court decision partly hinged on anti-abortion language added to...
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...
President Trump has distanced himself from Alabama's strict new abortion law, saying there should be exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That puts Mr. Trump at odds with some Republicans, including the state's governor. Ed O
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a case on a 2015 Alabama abortion law that bans a common form of the procedure during the second trimester of pregnancy. Alabama had sought to overturn lower court rulings that struck down the law, but the justices rejected that bid in their ...