The state’s Republican governor, Kay Ivey, has a week to sign or veto the bill, which would be the nation’s strictest anti-abortion law.
Leana Wen, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said her group would challenge the measure in court if it took effect.“We have no choice. For us, this is about our patients’ lives,” Wen told reporters on a conference call.Legislation to restrict abortion rights has been introduced this year in 16 states, four of whose governors have signed bills banning abortion if an embryonic heartbeat can be detected.
Alabama's state senate has passed a bill that would outlaw abortions, as part of a multistage effort.The state Senate defeated a Democratic amendment that would have allowed legal abortions for women and girls impregnated by rape or incest.Most of the Democratic candidates seeking their party’s 2020 nomination to run for the White House condemned the Alabama law, calling it an attack on women’s rights and vowing to fight to uphold legal access to abortion.
But supporters of the Alabama ban said the right to life of the fetus transcends other rights, an idea they would like tested at the Supreme Court.The high court, now with a majority of conservative justices after Republican President Donald Trump appointed two, could possibly overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision establishing a woman’s right to an abortion.
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