Correction: Alabama Senate did not vote on the nation's strictest abortion bill. Previous tweets said the bill had passed, but Alabama Senate had only voted on an amendment to the bill. We have deleted those tweets.
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After a shouting match broke out, the Alabama Senate on Thursday voted to table an amendment to a controversial bill that would criminalize abortions by making performing the procedure a felony punishable by up to 99 years imprisonment.The vote was then moved until next week. The bill would be the most restrictive in the country and would impose what is in effect a near-total abortion ban.
Alabama Rep. Terri Collins , who sponsored the bill, said its purpose is to spark litigation that would force the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guarantees a woman’s right to abortion.
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