The House will vote on two anti-abortion measures this week, while in Alabama, the attorney general says the state can prosecute women who use legal abortion pills to end pregnancies.
Steve MarshallTuesday that women in his state could be prosecuted for using abortion pills to end pregnancies. Asked by AL.com how this squares with Alabama’s Human Life Protection Act, which criminalizes abortion providers but specifically exempts people receiving abortions from criminal charges, he responded: “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.
As AL.com notes, the state’s chemical endangerment law, passed in 2006, was created to “protect small children from fumes and chemicals from home-based meth labs” and was almost immediately used against women who took various types of drugs during pregnancy . As a result, people were being sent to prison after having miscarriages and stillbirths. Last week, the Justice Department
the US Postal Service can continue to deliver abortion pills anywhere in the country, regardless of the laws in the state where they are entering.
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