Alabama Senate Erupts Into Chaos as Republicans Try to Ram Through Vote on Abortion Ban
Days after Georgia passed one of the most strict de facto abortion bans in the country, Alabama’s Republicans are following in hot pursuit, trying to pass a bill virtually banning abortion entirely. On Thursday, their attempts to make the bill even more restrictive than it already was caused an uproar on the Senate floor.
The bill, passed in Alabama’s House of Representatives last week, effectively bans abortion altogether with the exception of pregnancies that threaten the life of the mother. (Under the bill, performing abortions would be a felony punishable by up to 99 years in prison.) The State Senate Judiciary Committee added an additional exception for pregnancies stemming from rape or incest on Wednesday, but then the Senate dropped that amendment on Thursday. That’s where things got heated.