The Alabama court decision spotlighted theanti-abortion movement’s long-standing goalof giving embryos and fetuses legal and constitutional protections on par with those of the women carrying them. But abortion rights advocates see proposals granting even limited protections to embryos and fetuses as ...
Courtney AndrewsInstitute for Human Rights (IHR) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Anthropology Department at the University of AlabamaRoutledgeAnthropology Now
Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton, a Democrat, said Republicans helped create the situation in their push to enact some of the most stringentanti-abortion rights lawsin the country. The result, he said, was eliminating a path for people to become parents. "At the end of the day, the ...
On Wednesday, Kay Ivey, the state's governor, signed a new law that would ban all abortions, except in cases in which the mother's life is in danger, in the latest challenge to the 1973 landmark Supreme Court case that ruled that women have a right to have an abortion. The Alabama ...
Alabama Senator Clyde Chambliss says that IVF clinics that discard eggs wouldn’t face criminal charges under the new law because an egg in a lab is not in a woman. “2019 has become the year where anti-abortion politicians have fully admitted that their ultimate agenda is ba...
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...
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Theextreme anti-abortion billsigned into law in Alabama on Wednesday sent shock waves far across state lines, crystallizing the growing challenge to Roe v. Wade and triggering record donations to groups bent on making sure women can safely end unwanted pregnancies. ...
Justices, citing anti-abortion language in the Alabama Constitution, ruled that an 1872 state law allowing parents to sue over the death of a minor child “applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location.” “Unborn children are ‘children’ ... without exception based on ...
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. ...