Women can be prosecuted for taking abortion pills, says Alabama attorney general

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Source: Al dot Com

One week after the federal government made it easier to get abortion pills, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Tuesday that women in Alabama who use those pills to end pregnancies could be prosecuted.

That’s despite wording in Alabama’s new Human Life Protection Act that criminalizes abortion providers and prevents its use against the people receiving abortions. Instead, the attorney general’s office said Alabama could rely on an older law, one initially designed to protect children from meth lab fumes.

“The Human Life Protection Act targets abortion providers, exempting women ‘upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed’ from liability under the law,” Marshall said in an emailed statement. “It does not provide an across-the-board exemption from all criminal laws, including the chemical-endangerment law—which the Alabama Supreme Court has affirmed and reaffirmed protects unborn children.”

The announcement followed changes last week to regulations of two medications commonly prescribed for abortion. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a change that will allow brick-and-mortar and mail-order pharmacies to dispense mifepristone and misoprostol, two drugs used in more than half of abortions in the United States. /SNIP

Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2023/01/women-can-be-prosecuted-for-taking-abortion-pills-says-alabama-attorney-general.html

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(Banging head on desk)

Somebody stop the world I want to get off.

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Commit Tax Fraud, Steal Classified Documents Or Incite An Insurrection Instead

You gotta know what's legal, and what will get you prosecuted.

[elleng]

2. Of course, 'cause that's what they do in Alabama.

[Samrob]

3. A new campaign gift to Dems. Treat it as such and begin NOW! nt

[YoshidaYui]

4. The Human Life Protection Act ?

WtF cAME up with that name? mayabe some dude who was into the Mutual of Omaha's wild Kingdom?
screwy!!

[pfitz59]

5. Unless they intercept mail, or other communications

how will the Alabama Talibornagain know? Empty threat...

[dembotoz]

16. make it part of a random drug test or pulled over for dui?

just another box on the checklist of things they look for.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

25. There's no drug test for mif.

[dembotoz]

29. yet

[WhiskeyGrinder]

30. Unlikely to be. It's metabolized very quickly.

[ancianita]

6. But what are your thoughts about this.

So, is the state AG is making a move against a govt agency? or the corporate pharma business?

Or both? Either could end up in court, and affect what the federal government can do for 51% of the population or big pharma's commerce.

While it looks like two bucks fighting over a doe, it's also about who gets to profit from an oppressive state law, a state or a corporation. States might allow a black market of abortion to exist (for its elites)in the enforcing of their patriarchal class war, while they fight commerce that prevents abortion to begin with. Forcing state interests around reproduction upon both the human and the capitalist.

Next question: will anyone care enough about the women of Koch-head AL to even bother taking this to court?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Huh? NT

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. The OP is about prosecuting the women, not fed gov agencies, or pharma

"will anyone care enough about the women of Koch-head AL to even bother taking this to court?"

I echo "huh?" from the previous reply.

[ancianita]

22. Okay. I hear you. And I get that. But I'm thinking there is always more behind prosecuting women,

not that that in itself isn't evil enough in itself, but that what drives it are other interests, besides controlling women.

[Walleye]

8. If men are so smart they should figure out how to have the babies themselves and leave us alone

[riversedge]

11. I second the thought!!

[Rebl2]

20. Or good

birth control for men.

[Walleye]

21. That of course would be reasonable alternative, if possible

[wolfie001]

9. Don't worry

Rich white alabamians have options. What a 3rd world state.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Men who take medications that inhibit sperm output should also be prosecuted by this law

Many common meds, some OTC, effect mucous membranes and thus cause 'dry' output.

I mean, equality demands these AG's do something about the drought!

[Rebl2]

23. So the OTC med

Would it be allergy medication??? By the way, I doubt they would ever go after men for taking those medications that inhibit sperm output. They would rather go after women and birth control of all kinds.

[Vinca]

12. Guess the busybody party is going to have to create a whole new police force to follow

women around from morning to night to be sure they're taking nothing other than vitamins and Advil.

[TheRickles]

13. "Chemical endangerment" - so pregnant women who drink alcohol or smoke will also be prosecuted. QED.

[ck4829]

14. Or industries that spew out fumes and liquids that cause miscarriages and birth defects?

Something tells me I shouldn't hold my breath for that one.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

27. Dozens of people who used drugs while pregnant have faced criminal charges. It's likely to increase

now that Roe is gone.

[Lonestarblue]

17. Republicans should just go ahead and declare full Taliban policies instead of their piecemeal

attempts to control everything women do. After all, why waste money on educating girls when they’ll only be allowed to be baby incubators. Why provide healthcare for women when men have declared that pregnancy is natural and no woman ever has complications requiring a doctor. Why have police and the courts involved in domestic abuse or rape when it’s any male’s right to “correct” his female relatives or to force sex on an unwilling woman. Forced marriage at 13 will take care of those unwed mothers.

[70sEraVet]

18. Why not just put all pregnant women in Maternity Camps until the 'product' is delivered?

Oh, I guess that would be a bit too much like Government-run Health Care!

[Farmer-Rick]

19. So what if they step across the border and take the pills

In another state? What if they took the pill a year ago, or five days ago.

Then can they go back to the Taliban controlled state? Or do they have to have the abortion physically in the other state? And how long before the statute of limitations kicks in? Or can you prosecute a poor women (Obviously this won't apply to the Waltons or the filthy rich.) who took a pill 5 years ago?

Abortions are perfectly legal in many other states. You can't keep women from leaving the Taliban. Parts of the country still have American democracy and clean running water too apparently.

[Marthe48]

24. How did we get here?

Women aren't incubators. What is wrong with the maniacs who are imposing punishment on people they don't know, never met, won't ever meet, but want to leave a ruinous imprint on their lives, one oppressed woman at a time?

I'm tired of mental illness governing our politics, affecting our personal lives. No one in this world has the right or privilege to abuse others. And this oppression of American women is flat out abuse. Anybody who thinks this oppression is okay is mentally ill and has no business in a leadership position or in a relationship.

[Hope22]

26. Like it or not we don't have equal rights.

It is beyond me how the reversal of Roe v Wade did not stop every normal American man in his tracks. Bottom line is they can say they love us but they don’t respect us. The revolution should not have to depend on women and girls. Minus the religious right we don’t have the numbers to make that happen. The America Taliban is winning and ‘good men’ are watching it happen. My husband and son have written zero letters made zero calls. My friend has written zero letters, made zero calls. They wave at the sinking Titanic saying…what am I supposed to do about it? You would think they would make one f-ing call!

[Martin68]

28. Good luck with that, Mr. Marshall.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

31. K&R

[Grins]

32. Name one Doctor that ever proscribed Meth fumes.

They want to imprison women to stay in office. This is a slippery slope.

[Mysterian]

33. Any state official that tries to enforce this should be arrested and charged

Time to stop fucking around with these christo-fascists.

[Brainfodder]

34. Don't ask don't tell gets a new use case?

[raising2moredems]

35. Prove it is all I can say...

Just because a package is delivered to an address means nothing. And by the time the pussy posse gets wind (no pun intended), the drugs are likely not detectable. Prove a positive pregnancy test, prove the pill were taken. Remember (and sorry AL DU members), squealing like a pig wasn't exclusive to Deliverance.

[LudwigPastorius]

36. "Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Tuesday..."

Go fuck yourself, you Trump-fluffing, redneck shithead.

[The Bopper]

37. Time to go

I can carry an AK or AR in the open and “say” I feel uncomfortable and “legally “shoot someone, but I can’t take “legal” medicine in my own house. THATS THOSE a*holes definition of “freedom “. 99% of Alabama is a 3rd world country and proud of it.

[Marthe48]

38. Here's a thought

The sane people in government and in the public need to understand that if we tell religion to stay in their own lane, we aren't denying God. We are denying the zealots' oppression of our own rights to practice our faith the way we want to and to live our lives as we wish to. I am not less faithful because I support free will, not less good because I don't thump a Bible in everyone's face. The zealots are no less bullies than their brethen carrying fully automatic weapons in public. As long as we the people act like we're in the wrong for observing our rights, and the government doesn't rein in the zealots and bullies, the zealots and bullies are going to keep encroaching on rights laid out in the U.S. Constitution, and making America unidentifiable as America.