“Ahead of Alabama’s potential vote on a near-total abortion ban, the state’s lieutenant governor took to Twitter to urge his fellow lawmakers to pass the legislation without exceptions for rape or incest,” CBS News reports.
Said Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth (R) in a video: “Abortion is murder. Those three simple words sum up my position on an issue that many falsely claim in a complex one.”
He that “there should be no amendments, which appeared to be a reference to exceptions for rape or incest.”
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