Georgia Sen. Jordan: Let Alabama Challenge 'Roe v. Wade'
“So now that Georgia has been out-crazied by Alabama,” State Sen. Jen Jordan said, "let our neighbors focus on and pay for the ensuing multi-year litigation extravaganza.”
May 02, 2019 at 02:19 PM
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Attorney and State Sen. Jen Jordan, D-Atlanta, renewed her call for Gov. Brian Kemp to veto Georgia's legislation banning abortion past six weeks of pregnancy on Wednesday, after Alabama lawmakers passed a more restrictive measure.
The Alabama law would ban abortion at any point in pregnancy and make the procedure a felony subject to criminal prosecution. Doctors and medical professionals could face up to 99 years in prison. No exceptions for rape or incest were included in the legislation, which compared abortion to the Holocaust.
Like Georgia supporters, those in Alabama have expressed hopes that their law would be the one to ultimately prompt the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision recognizing women's right to choose.
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