U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson issued a preliminary injunction blocking Alabama from enforcing the law, which would have called for a sentence of 10 years to life in prison for the abortion provider with no exceptions for rape or incest.
Alabama legislators approved the measure this year, hoping to mount a court challenge to abortion rights. Abortion providers sued to stop the law from going into effect. Randall Marshall, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the decision was expected. The law was set to take effect next month and is the most hardline of the anti-abortion measures enacted this year as states emboldened by the new conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court take aim at Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
Well that is nice but before this law it was neither legal nor illegal as Roe Vs. Wade made it a states issue. For economic reasons and incest common in Alabama it really should be very easy as Alabama is so poor and over full with welfare expenses
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