The Handmaiden State I Live In - Alabama

Alabama's Project 2025 - Already In Place

Abortion in Alabama is illegal. In any form. For any reason other then a serious health risk to the mother.

Alabama has a female governor who signed the most restrictive abortion bill in the country. Her reason was everyones life is sacred. Yet in the Summer of 2024 she refused to feed poverty stricken children in the state for the summer. Her reasoning. It was a matter of timing and funding.

Alabama State House 2019

The State of Alabama will not expand Medicaid, Feed children free lunch and is building a 1.2 billion dollar prison (no joke). Alabama has hospitals closing in our rural counties, does not want to pass a decent minumum wage, which is currently at $7.25. Healthcare access is at an all time low and povertty is at an all time high. Yet in May 2019 Alabama passed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the Country.

The law is called the Human Life Protection Act (HLPA). The HLPA does not criminalize women who receive abortions. Only abortion providers could face charges if they violate the act. Those found guilty of performing abortions will face class A felony charges, would could result in a life sentence in prison. The HLPA bans abortions at any stage of a pregnancy. The law provides for exceptions in cases where a fetus has a lethal anomaly (a medical condition that would cause the fetus to be stillborn or to die shortly following birth), or in cases where a pregnancy would "present serious health risk" to the woman.

The law does not ban procedures to end ectopic pregnancies. Ectopic pregnancies occur when a fertilized ovum does not implant inside the uterus as designed. In most cases, ectopic pregnancies become implanted in the fallopian tube. These pregnancies can lead to the rupturing of the fallopian tube, which can be life-threatening, due to internal bleeding.

Fact

In Alabama, the prevalence of ectopic pregnancies varies, but scientific research and statistical data indicate that approximately 1 in 50 pregnancies is ectopic

The HLPA does not include an exception in cases of rape or incest. Every 68 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. Every 9 minutes, that victim is a child. Meanwhile, only 25 out of every 1,000 perpetrators will end up in prison.

In Alabama

• 56 percent of the rape victims in Alabama were white; 30 percent were black, and 14 percent were other or unknown.

• 23 percent of all rape victims were 13-, 14-, 15- and 16-year-olds.

• In 79 percent of the rapes, the victim and offender knew or were related to each other.

• In 4 percent, the victim and offender were strangers.

• In 17 percent, the relationship was unknown.

  Resource: ACAR (alabamacoalitionagainstrape.org)

Alabama since the 1800s has had some form of a ban on abortions and between 1892 and 1935, there were 40 prosecutions and five convictions of women having abortions. By the end of 1972, Alabama along with Massachuetts allowed abortions only in cases where the woman's physical health was endangered. And in 1973 with the passing of Roe v. Wade the state could no longer regulate abortions.

Alabama passed its abortion ban in 2019.

In June 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, allowing the Act to go into effect. The state of Alabama at that time had three abortion clinics open and they were ordered to cease operating. On August 28, 2023, attorneys for Attorney General Steve Marshall wrote in a court filing that the attorney general will prosecute those who help a pregnant person leave the state to get an abortion. In Alabama you could do more time for helping a rape vixtim leave the state to get an abortion, then raping that person and getting them pregnant.

Alabama Democratic Party chair Chris England said in a statement that Republican legislators and judges appointed by the party "think they should be sitting between you and your doctor while making medical decisions."

"Republican politicians will claim this is a win for 'life' in a state with high infant mortality rates, a Black maternal mortality crisis, and countless other public health crises," the statement said. "They refuse to expand Medicaid, providing free lifesaving healthcare access to Alabama families -- or do anything else that actually sanctifies life for Alabamians."

The state of Alabama professes to be Pro-Life. I can’t see it from where I am sitting.

I do guarentee that they will be the first state to enact the big brother data base to keep track of those periods flowing if it should come to that.

Facts-

The Food Research and Action Center estimated 545,000 Alabama children were eligible for the benefit and that the expected economic impact of the benefits was between $98.1 million and $117.7 million.

Alabama’s Motto: Bring them into the world. We just won’t feed them! Roll Tide Y’all.

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