A new bill introduced by a Republican in Alabama would erroneously categorize embryos and fetuses as people under the law, granting the state the ability to arrest and charge individuals with murder if they willingly terminate their pregnancies.
Speaking to Valenti about the bill, Robin Marty, Director of Operations for the West Alabama Women’s Center, decried the proposal as reckless and troubling.
“From the moment a person is pregnant — whether they are aware or not — that person will now be in immediate danger of being accused of a murder,” . “For a state with no sex ed, no birth control, no insurance and no hospitals to now order them to give birth to a healthy baby or go to jail is unconscionable.”is widely read among people with lower incomes and among young people who are mired in debt. Our site is read at public libraries, among people without internet access of their own. People print out our articles and send them to family members in prison — we receive letters from behind bars regularly thanking us for our coverage.
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