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One week after the federal government made it easier to get abortion pills, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Tuesday that women in Alabama who use those pills to end pregnancies could be prosecuted.
Thats despite wording in Alabamas new Human Life Protection Act that criminalizes abortion providers and prevents its use against the people receiving abortions. Instead, the attorney generals office said Alabama could rely on an older law, one initially designed to protect children from meth lab fumes.
The Human Life Protection Act targets abortion providers, exempting women upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed from liability under the law, Marshall said in an emailed statement. It does not provide an across-the-board exemption from all criminal laws, including the chemical-endangerment lawwhich the Alabama Supreme Court has affirmed and reaffirmed protects unborn children.
The announcement followed changes last week to regulations of two medications commonly prescribed for abortion. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a change that will allow brick-and-mortar and mail-order pharmacies to dispense mifepristone and misoprostol, two drugs used in more than half of abortions in the United States.
https://www.al.com/news/2023/01/women-can-be-prosecuted-for-taking-abortion-pills-says-alabama-attorney-general.html
Lovie777
(12,266 posts)phoenix75
(289 posts)What a woman chooses to do (or not do) with her own body is nobody's business but hers. End of story.
rubbersole
(6,691 posts)Florida has a big lead...
milestogo
(16,829 posts)dlk
(11,566 posts)And would be at right home in the Taliban. Their hatred makes them dangerous.
2naSalit
(86,634 posts)Can fuck right off!
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Imagine that.
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)should be deducted from the amount of federal aid sent to AL, at the very least.
Thats the way to target it specifically, IMO.
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)IMO, the right to safe and discreet abortion services is a BASIC human right.
There should be NO impediments to it, period.
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)About a deadly airborne disease.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,351 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,049 posts)How could they prove a woman took the pill? Even if they tracked down a filled prescription, how would they prove any pills were ingested?
If I'm right, this is political grandstanding, ultimately leading to nothing.