The Governor of Alabama has signed the most severe anti-abortion law in the United States

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed the toughest anti-abortion law in the United States, which provides for a century of imprisonment for practicing doctors and aims to bring the debate to the Supreme Court. .

"This legislation bears witness to the deep conviction of the people of Alabama that every life is precious and constitutes a sacred gift of God."Ivey said in a statement released after signing the law that prohibits abortion at any stage of pregnancy.

Approved Tuesday night by the Republican majority of the Alabama Senate -25 white men and no women-, the law does not provide for exceptions in case of incest or violation. Abortion is acceptable only if there is a danger of death for the mother or fetus.

But the law will probably not be enforced and the governor recognizes it in his statement.

The ACLU, the largest human rights organization in the United States, has promised to block it in court. And that is the intention.

The goal of its promoters is to provoke a judicial battle to the Supreme Court of Justice. They hope their judges, now the Conservative majority thanks to the designations of Republican President Donald Trump, will cancel the decision "Roe Vs. Wade" which, in 1973, allowed abortion throughout the country.

"We can all agree that, at least in the short term, this law can not come into effect," said Governor Ivey, stating that she had never supported "Roe Vs. Wade". "The proponents of this law believe that it is time (…) that the Supreme Court return to this important issue."

Randall Marshall, executive director of the ACLU in Alabama, said that with this decision, "the governor and her colleagues in the state legislature have decided to waste millions of taxpayer dollars from Alabama to defend a law in a simple political effort to cancel 46 years previous legal "before the Supreme Court.

He also recalled that the clinics would remain open "and that the abortion remained safe and was a legal procedure in all clinics in Alabama".