'We're telling a 12-year-old girl who, through incest and rape is pregnant, we are telling her that she doesn't have a choice,' Democratic state Senator Rodger Smitherman said.
Alabama's state Senate passed the most restrictive abortion bill in the country on Tuesday night, embracing legislation that could see doctors sentenced to life in prison for performing the procedure.
Democratic state Senator Bobby Singleton pointed out on Tuesday that, in cases involving rape, a doctor could be put behind bars for decades longer than a rapist who caused an unwanted pregnancy in the first place. Under Alabama law, rape in the first degree is considered a Class A felony with a punishment of"no less than 10 years and no more than life or 99 years," meaning that doctors could potentially serve up to the same amount of time as offenders.
Condemning the bill, Democratic state Senator Rodger Smitherman said that by passing the measure,"we're telling a 12-year-old girl, who, through incest and rape is pregnant, we are telling her that she doesn't have a choice." Ziegler also said it is important to remember that"the letter of the law only tells part of the story," with the researcher asserting that it would be difficult to imagine prosecutors sentencing a doctor to 99 years behind bars for carrying out an abortion.
"I think Alabama legislators are trying to make it impossible to uphold this law without overturning Roe," she said. However, she said that in this case she was"skeptical" their strategy was going to work.
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