-This bill is not about pro life or the right to life.
This bill is about control.
-The Alabama Senate on May 14th
approved the nation's toughest anti-abortion ban,
outlawing virtually all abortions in the state
with no exceptions for rape or incest.
The bill, which passed 25 to 6, permits abortion
only when necessary to save a mother's life.
Doctors who perform the procedure
would face felony prison time of up to 99 years if convicted.
The law would take effect six months
after being signed by Republican governor Kay
Ivey, who has described herself as anti-abortion in the past.
Democrats and abortion-rights advocates say
the Alabama measure would drive abortion procedures underground
and endanger the lives of women.
-You are always going to have those women
who are going to have abortions.
Senator Figures gave some good examples.
We all know about the back alleys, the basements.
People are going to have abortion.
The problem is, it's going to always be unsafe,
inaccessible for those people who have lesser means.
-When God creates that life,
that miracle of life inside the woman's womb,
then it's not our place as humans to extinguish that life.
-Lawmakers hope the legislation will help persuade
the US Supreme Court
to reconsider the landmark Roe v.
Wade ruling.