The Governor of Alabama Ratifies the Most Severe Anti-Abortion Law in the United States

Radio France International News from America

May 16, 2019

The governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, signed on Wednesday the strictest anti-abortion law in the United States after its approval by the Senate, which provides for a century of imprisonment for the doctors who practice it and aims to bring the debate to the Supreme Court. of Justice.

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Protesters took to the streets of Alabama on Wednesday after Tuesday's approval of an anti-abortion law in the Senate. It is one of the most stringent laws in the United States. The governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, ratified it a day later.

The law strictly prohibits abortion from the first moment of pregnancy and provides up to 99 years in prison for the doctors who practice it. Nor does it provide for exceptions in case of rape or incest.

The largest human rights organization in the United States, ACLU, has launched a process to block the law. Lucia Hermo, head of the ACLU's legal department, explains that "for us, this has not been a big surprise because the Alabama legislature has not supported the law. to abortion for many years ".

"We have been fighting abortion rights for many years," he said, "while we hoped to end the Legislature, we are also ready to sue and perform the legal work that is required to fight. "

The anti-abortion law succeeded in getting the Senate of Alabama pbaded, but it was also in 16 other states, such as Kentucky, Mississippi and Georgia. The next step will be to come to the US Supreme Court to overturn the famous "Roe v. Wade", the view that abortion was a constitutional right protected by Amendment 14 of the Constitution.

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