Only male Alabama state senators voted Tuesday to pass the most restrictive abortion bill in the country that would criminalize abortion in the state and ban the procedure in nearly all cases including rape and incest
The bill now goes to the desk of the state's female Republican governor, Kay Ivey, who has not publicly announced her stance on the bill but previously aligned herself as anti-abortion. After hours of debate, the Republican-led Senate voted 25-6 on party lines to pass HB 314. All of the bill's 25"yea" votes were from Republican men, including State Sen. Clyde Chambliss, who ushered the bill through the chamber. The remaining two Republicans, both men, did not vote.
Of the 76 GOP members in the House, all Republican male lawmakers voted in favor of the bill, except for two who did not vote. Alabama Senate passes near-total abortion banThe bill's sponsor in the House is a woman, Republican state Rep. Terri Collins. She, along with the six other Republican women in the House, voted to pass the bill.Nearly all Democratic House members chose not to vote, walking out of the House chamber in protest.
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