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Alabama’s Abortion Law is About Punishing Women, Not Doctors.
They’re after women, not the physicians.
Welcome to The Handmaid’s Tale.
Alabama has now joined the ranks of Georgia and Ohio, surpassing even their draconian laws with legislation that states doctors who perform an abortion will be punished with up to 99 years in prison. Even an attempt to aid someone with an abortion will be punished with a ten year sentence.
Regardless of the short term outcomes, the white men who wrote these laws got their wish. Pro choice advocacy groups have already said they plan on challenging this law and others like it in the courts, and this is exactly what the GOP wants. If they get their way, this law will be taken all the way to the Supreme Court. With a conservative majority on the bench, it isn’t difficult to identify how the underlying intention of this bill is to overturn our constitutional rights to our own bodies.
Let’s be clear. This has nothing to do with punishing doctors, but it has everything to do with punishing the people who they will no longer be able to help.
We cannot talk about these abortion laws without discussing them in the context of the communities that they will affect the most. I find it hard to believe that the rich, white women will have any trouble…
