The most stringent anti-abortion law in the United States has been approved by 25 men and no woman: it even forbids in case of violation

The bill pbaded Tuesday in the Alabama Senate, which bans abortion under the country 's most stringent rules, was pbaded without the consent of a senator: the 25 members of the Congresses who have shown their favor are men.

The Republican majority in the upper house, which did not no woman among his 27 seats (out of 35 in total), he weighed his dominance. The two abstentions did not change the panorama and the project was approved with 25 votes for and six against by the Democrats, a party that has four women among its eight legislators.

With four senators from 35 bancadas (11.4%), Alabama has one of the most unequal gender proportions in the country. At the Federal Congress, the quota for women is 28.7%.

The difference was also noted when the Democrats they tried to introduce an amendment allow termination of pregnancy in case of rape and incest.

21 votes against, again all men, were imposed on the 11 who tried to mitigate the impact of the project text.

Now the situation is in the hands of a woman. The Republican government Kay Ivey must sign the bill to promulgate it and did not speak publicly about it.

In any event, his position may be irrelevant: in case he wishes to reject it, the overwhelming majority of the Senate could annul the veto and create the law firm.

The text makes abortion a crime punishable by 10 to 99 years in prison for the doctor who practices it. It can be practiced only in case of danger of death for the mother or the fetus. The objective of its promoters is to provoke a judicial battle which ends before the Supreme Court of Justice, at the time of the narrow conservative majority, in the hope of obtaining an opinion in accordance with national jurisprudence and reversing the antecedent of 1973 that allowed abortion throughout the country. .

The Democratic Minority Leader in the Senate, Bobby Singleton, said that lawmakers who have eliminated the exception of rape or incest: "They have just violated the state of the art. Alabama".

"They have 27 men on the other side ready to tell a woman what she can do with her body. They tell my daughter that she's plugging it (…) That men can rape her and that she will have to have a child if she gets pregnant"It's been argued with indignation.

Outside the Senate, about 50 people demonstrated by singing "Who Owns the Election? It's Our Choice." Several women were dressed as characters from "The Handmaid's Tale," a novel turned into a television series that describes a dystopian future in which fertile women are forced to conceive.

(With information from AFP)