Alabama is moving towards a total criminalization of …

In accordance with US President Donald Trump's position regarding the voluntary termination of pregnancy, the Alabama Senate has pbaded the country's most restrictive law regarding the prohibition of abortion. The initiative eliminates exceptions in cases such as rape or incest and provides jail terms ranging from 10 to 99 years to the doctors who practice them. This leaves the living cause only by the danger of death for the mother or the fetus, establishing that abortion becomes a crime from the moment the first heartbeat of the fetus is heard at six weeks of gestation. Women who have abortions would not be prosecuted, but their access to this right sanctioned by the Court would be hindered.

The final approval of the project, which already had the support of the lower house, is in the hands of governor Kay Ivey, a member of the ruling party, who has not yet expressed support for this initiative. But its political leader, President Trump, lobbied several months ago to ban the late abortion of children, saying that a new regulation in New York, extending the term of office of the president of the United IVE until the 24th week of gestation, represented "a law allowing tears the baby's belly just before birth."

The goal of Alabama Senators is to provoke a judicial battle that happens at the Supreme Court of Justice, thus defying the legality of this practice in the country, enshrined in a Supreme Court decision of 1973. The Lieutenant Governor and Republican Senate Speaker Will Ainsworth praised the decision that lawmakers "have taken a big step forward in defending the rights of unborn children."

The Democrats had tried to introduce an amendment in the text authorizing the practice of rape and incest, but they were rejected by 21 votes to 11. Added to the 25 votes in favor and 6 against, the initiative in general could to be sanctioned in the next days. "This project will challenge" Roe v. Wade "and protect the lives of unborn children," acknowledged its promoter, Republican Rep. Terri Collins.

The largest human rights organization in the United States, ACLU, has promised to take legal action to block its implementation and said the measure will not come into force. "This law punishes the victims of rape and incest by taking control of their own bodies and forcing them to give birth," ACLU of Alabama wrote in a statement.

For its part, the leader of the Democratic Minority Senate, Bobby Singleton, said that lawmakers who have eliminated the exception of rape or incest: "They have just violated the state of l & # 39; Alabama. " "They tell my daughter that she is laughing at it (…) That men can rape her without any problem and that she will have to have a child if she gets pregnant," she said. she explained, the voice sometimes broken by emotion.