Alabama Bill Could Make Abortions After Two Weeks Punishable By The Death Penalty

[Judi Lynn]

ASHLEY ALESE EDWARDS
APRIL 3, 2019, 11:35 AM

Getting an abortion two weeks after conception could in theory be a capital offense, and punishable by the death penalty, if Alabama state Rep. Terri Collins has her way. Collins, a Republican, has introduced a bill that would essentially ban abortion in the state with the explicit hope the ensuing legal battle will result in Roe v. Wade being overturned.

Collins' bill would ban abortion "in Alabama within two weeks of conception, which is the earliest point that pregnancy can be medically determined and the same standard used by a state law allowing someone to be charged with murder if a pregnant woman’s child is killed or harmed during the commission of a crime." Alabama is one of 38 states that has fetal homicide laws.

The bill allows exceptions for cases where the woman's life is in danger, but it does not allow exceptions for cases of rape or incest. Currently, abortion care is banned in Alabama after 21.6 weeks and there is a 48-hour waiting period.

“Just last year, roughly 60 percent of voters across the state ratified a constitutional amendment declaring Alabama as a pro-life state, and this legislation is the next logical step in the fight to protect unborn life,” Collins wrote in a press release. Sixty-three members of Alabama's House have co-sponsored the bill. Although Collins' legislation claims that it's "especially important to reconsider personhood because medical technology and the accumulated knowledge associated with unborn life has significantly improved and expanded" since 1973 (when Roe was decided), most medical professionals agree that a fetus cannot survive outside the womb before roughly 22 weeks.

More:
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/04/228771/alabama-abortion-ban-roe-v-wade

[Chipper Chat]

1. Is Alabama going to execute the father also?

Just askin

[Freddie]

2. Will the police investigate every used tampon?

There might be a non-implanted microscopic zygote on there. I think the women of Alabama should start sending used feminine hygiene products to her, you never know.

[Submariner]

3. How about a law that amputates the penis that caused the pregnancy being aborted 2 weeks later

instead of executing the girl, just cut the boy's dick off instead.

See how that idea scans through the Bama legislature.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. "STRING HER UP!" proclaims the bubbly Ms. Terry with a I, whilst praising Jeebus

[Aristus]

5. Of course no exception for incest because: Alabama.

Aborting the products of incest would depopulate the whole wretched state...

[mitch96]

6. "Abortions Punishable By The Death Penalty"

Kinda slaps the term "pro life" in the face,eh?
m

[FiveGoodMen]

7. "Alabama, you've got the rest of the union to help you along...

...what's going wrong?"

-- Neil Young

[Marrah_Goodman]

8. Because what Alabama needs is more children living in poverty,

being raised by young women who are barely past childhood themselves. Wealthy or even middle class women will go to another state and have it done. Poor girls and women will be stuck.

[Skittles]

10. they don't care about children

they just want to punish women

[UTUSN]

9. K&R