Alabama’s Near-Total Abortion Ban Blocked By Federal Judge
October 29, 2019
2:20 pm
Energized by new conservatives on the US supreme court, Alabama and other conservative states have attempted to enact new restrictions on abortion in the hopes of getting supreme court justices to reconsider Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
A number of states attempted to ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected. The Alabama law went further by attempting to ban almost all abortions with no exceptions for cases of rape and incest.
Passed by the Republican-led legislature, the 2019 Alabama Human Life Protection Act would make performing an abortion at any stage of pregnancy …
