The legislators who made abortion illegal in Alabama are all men – the reactions
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Alabama just made abortion’s a felony. From the moment of conception, you can’t have an abortion. It doesn’t matter if you’re raped. You have to have the baby. If you abort? 99 years in prison. That’s more time than the rapist would get. I’m physically sick. This is disgusting.
— 444 the angels are w/ u (@melanatedmomma) May 15, 2019
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My mum is a nurse, and when I was young I asked her why there’s no abortion debate in the UK. She told me the hideous fact: either women can get them, or they do it themselves with knitting needles. The real debate is: do we care?
We’ve just got our answer from Alabama. https://t.co/abQUtdT7kW— Erica Buist (@ericabuist) May 15, 2019
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The news from Alabama is grim. Like something out of the dark ages.
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) May 15, 2019
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Good morning Alabama, you primitive, backward, reactionary, unevolved disgrace to humanity.
— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) May 15, 2019
Writer, Geraldine DeRuiter shared this outrageous fact.
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In Alabama, the penalty for a doctor who performs an abortion on a patient, even in the case of rape or incest, is more severe than the penalty for actually committing rape or incest. https://t.co/zuKFfczw8g
— Geraldine (@everywhereist) May 15, 2019
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Seriously, wtf is happening to America? https://t.co/vsSJSdwJ6Q
— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) May 15, 2019
However, Alabama isn’t the only place with a policy like this.
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For anyone horrified by Alabama’s proposed abortion ban, or calling it Gilead. Look closer to home! Northern Ireland does not permit abortions even in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality. The ONLY exception is endangerment to a woman’s life.
— Helen Lewis (@helenlewis) May 15, 2019
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English people: OMG I can’t believe Alabama has made abortion illegal what a backward cruel awful place how can this happen oh the humanity
Northern Irish people: pic.twitter.com/uGygWXnFP0— Mitten d'Amour (@MittenDAmour) May 15, 2019
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Condemn Alabama, and get in tough with your MP to change the EVEN MORE draconian laws on abortion in Northern Ireland. https://t.co/qLNEue2ccz
— Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack) May 15, 2019
Which doesn’t make Alabama any better.
Guys, it's possible for Northern Ireland's abortion laws to be bad at the same time as Alabama's. Badness is not mutually exclusive.
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) May 15, 2019
With its customary biting insight, Have I Got News For You made this point,
Alabama senators vote to make abortion a criminal offence, although children will still have the right to be killed with a gun.
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) May 15, 2019
2019 – Trump’s America.
