2020 Democratic presidential candidates are hitting back hard against Alabama's near-total abortion ban.
2020 Democratic presidential candidates are hitting back hard against Alabama's near-total abortion ban, which wasand to defend the Supreme Court's precedent set forth in Roe v. Wade.
However, few babies are born alive — 143 between 2003 to 2014 — after a failed abortion, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, the CDC reported that just 1.3% of abortions take place after 21 weeks, which often involve either severe fetal anomalies or conditions that endanger the mother.Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., denounced the new Alabama law, saying that women deserve better.
She will be in Atlanta, Ga., Thursday to headline a group of women protesting that state's"heartbeat" law, which was passed before Alabama's new law. It will be the first time she is visiting the state since launching her presidential campaign. "We must say loud and clear that women's health care is under attack. We will not stand for it and we won’t go down without a fight. Too much is at stake," she tweeted after Ivey signed the Alabama bill.
In a video posted on Twitter, the 2020 hopeful also called out Trump for"stacking the courts" with judges who are trying to ban abortion. "The governor of Alabama just signed a near-total ban on abortion. What an utter disgrace," the senator tweeted after Ivey signed the bill into law.
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