ALABAMA PREPARES FOR THE OVERTURNING OF ROE V. WADE

[Heddi]

http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/alabama-prepares-for-the-overturning-of-roe-v-wade

Alabama's preparing a pro-life amendment for their state's constitution that would uphold the rights of the unborn if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.

Alabama's House of Representatives on Thursday March 16 passed HB98 by 67–14 vote which reads:

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama ... to recognize and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, most importantly the right to life ... and to provide that the Constitution of this state does not protect the right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.

State Rep. Matt Fridy, who introduced the bill, affirmed the constitutional amendment was necessary in the event the High Court sends the issue of abortion back to the states. "We want to make sure that at a state level, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, that the Alabama Constitution cannot be used as a mechanism by which to claim that there is a right to abortion," said Fridy.

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Alabama considers itself a pro-life state. The state's Supreme Court ruled last December that unborn children are human beings and thus entitled to legal protection regardless of viability. In his concurring opinion, Alabama Supreme Court Justice Thomas Parker wrote:

Unborn children, whether they have reached the ability to survive outside their mother's womb or not, are human beings and thus persons entitled to the protections of the law—both civil and criminal. It should be all the more intolerable in Alabama, where the express, emphatic public policy of our state is to uphold the value of unborn life.

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Aw, how quaint.

[guillaumeb]

1. "Quaint"?

An attack on women. Illinois also has such a law.

[Lordquinton]

5. Two states with religious based laws to hurt women

Based in nothing but hate and a belief in god.

[guillaumeb]

6. And a proclaimed belief in the sanctity of fetal life. eom

[trotsky]

2. A religious attack on women.

And of course they don't give a crap once it's born. Then he or she can suffer in poverty and die for all they care.

[shenmue]

3. Rights for the embryo, not the pregnant woman around it

[CurtEastPoint]

4. so typical