“It is one of the most restrictive abortion bans as it criminalizes ‘any person to intentionally perform or attempt to perform an abortion’ at any stage of pregnancy with only exceptions for averting death or ‘serious health risks.’ The governor signed it, despite admitting that it may be ‘unenforceable’ and that she wishes for the act to be challenged by a Supreme Court decision.” - Jurist
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NewBackfire
Alabama’s gambit may backfire. I wish they’d gone with a fetal heartbeat bill or something along those lines.
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NewFederalism
I haven’t read up lately (and can’t remember) on what would actually happen if Roe v Wade would be nullified. I guess it would depend on whether they overturned all or part or what. If it just got “erased,” so to speak, that would pretty much put the whole matter back among the states to regulate? That would be progress, though, long term, what we need is a federal level abortion ban. It’s hard to see what a federal gov’t is for if not at least for protecting the lives of it’s most helpless citizens.
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NewYup, states
The situation prior to Roe was that the states regulated it. First state to broadly legalize it in the sixties was California. Guess whose signature approved the bill?
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NewOne other thought
….is that when crafting legislation to move the “Overton Window” of things that can reasonably be discussed in politics, one important thing, per Alabama, is to understand at what point you’re going to be leading with your chin. To wit, the first challenge is not Georgia or Missouri, but Alabama, and the Alabama law, with its flaws, could invalidate other laws that might otherwise survive.
I hope and pray I’m wrong here, but those are the signs I’m seeing.
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