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TexasTowelie

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Tue Apr 2, 2019, 02:20 AM Apr 2019

Alabama lawmakers seek ban on almost all abortions

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama could be the latest state to consider an abortion ban as supporters hope to spark legal challenges to revisit Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

Rep. Terri Collins, a Republican from Decatur, said she plans to introduce legislation Tuesday that would make it a felony to perform an abortion in Alabama at any stage of pregnancy. The only exemption would be for the health of the mother.

“This bill just truly confronts Roe versus Wade and it criminalizes abortion,” Collins said. “To me this is an issue the court simply got wrong years ago.”

Collins and Eric Johnston, director of the Alabama Pro-Life Coalition, said the hope is to ignite a legal fight and eventually get the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the 1973 decision that legalized abortion.

Read more: https://whnt.com/2019/03/30/alabama-lawmakers-seek-ban-on-almost-all-abortions/

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Alabama lawmakers seek ban on almost all abortions (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2019 OP
Well of course they do. After all, every one (man) COLGATE4 Apr 2019 #1

COLGATE4

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1. Well of course they do. After all, every one (man)
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 09:18 AM
Apr 2019

knows that, if a woman becomes pregnant it's her own damn fault and if she tries to interfere with it she should be severely punished. She should just smile and bear the consequences.
(just in case it's actually necessary)

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