Alabama
Alabama Files "Personhood" Bill, Florida Kills Their Petition
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
December 7, 2011 - 2:51pm (Print)
More states make headway on pushing fertilized eggs as people bills.
Alabama 20 Week Abortion Ban Goes Into Effect
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
September 1, 2011 - 2:53pm (Print)
The state becomes the fifth to ban abortion prior to viability.
Alabama Governor Still Deciding on 20 Week Abortion Ban
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
June 14, 2011 - 4:00pm (Print)
Although the law was passed through the legislature in the very end of the session, the governor is still mulling whether or not to sign it into law.
Would Alabama Personhood Undo Corporate Personhood?
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
April 4, 2011 - 8:26pm (Print)
If the state does get a person to be redefined to moment of fertilization, does that mean corporations will lose their personhood?
Roundup: ACLU Suing Alabama Prisons for Treatment of HIV-Positive Prisoners
by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check
April 1, 2011 - 10:06am (Print)
Wisconsin library will show the anti-choice documentary, U.S. House committee passes bill preventing pre-tax dollars from being spend on abortion, ACLU sues Alabama prisons, and Virginia governor asks for abortion to be excluded from state insurance exchanges.
Is Locking Up Pregnant Women the New Cure for State Financial Woes and Mental Health Problems?
by Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
March 30, 2011 - 3:05pm (Print)
Lawmakers in Alabama and Indiana are moving to arrest and incarcerate pregnant women with mental illness and drug addiction, and charge them with harming their fetus. National Advocates for Pregnant Women is working to defend the basic rights of pregnant women suffering from mental illness, severe depression, or any other health problem to be treated like other human beings experiencing the same problems.
Responding to the Arrests of Pregnant Women in Alabama
Amanda K. was six months pregnant and went into early labor with a prolapsed umbilical cord. She went to a local hospital for care where she underwent emergency surgery, but unfortunately her son soon died. But, rather than providing the support and compassionate care she and her family needed, the hospital drug tested her. The positive result was used as a basis for reporting her to the police and having her arrested for the crime of “chemical endangerment” of a child.
Like Literacy Tests Before Them, Parental Notification and Consent Laws Are Meant to Punish and Humiliate
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
February 16, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)
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2009 PushSummit: Free the Midwives!
by Amie Newman
July 12, 2009 - 5:38pm (Print)
If you are pregnant in Alabama and you'd like to birth at home, you have every right to do so. But don't expect to do it with the provider of your choice. Midwifery is illegal in Alabama, as it is in 25 other states. The 2009 PushSummit in Birmingham this week will address this and much more.
Birmingham Blues: Part 2
by Marcy Bloom, GIRE
August 13, 2007 - 5:50am (Print)
Marcy Bloom shares stories from her experience in Birmingham, Alabama -- including Emily Lyons' perspective and highlighting the different groups who came together to protect women.
