SB13 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Vivian Davis Figures Senator

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Abortion; right to make reproductive decisions, established; state prohibited from restricting abortion in certain circumstances

Description

The state constitution affirms that it is the public policy of the state to support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, including the right to life.

This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, relating to abortion, to establish the individual right to make one's own reproductive decisions, including contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one's own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion.

This bill would prohibit the state from burdening, penalizing, prohibiting, interfering with, or discriminating against an individual's voluntary exercise of the right to make his or her own reproductive decisions, unless the state does so in the least restrictive means and to advance the individual's health in accordance with evidence-based standards of care.

This bill would authorize the state to prohibit abortion after fetal viability and would define the term "fetal viability." This bill would also prohibit the state from prohibiting an abortion if the abortion is necessary to protect the pregnant individual's life or health.

SB13 INTRODUCED.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments Statewide