Gov. Kay Ivey: ‘Alabama will always fight to protect our babies’

Gov. Kay Ivey: ‘Alabama will always fight to protect our babies’

On the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision that led to dramatic restrictions on abortions, Alabama Republicans marked the occasion with celebration and promises to strengthen those restrictions.

“Alabama will always fight to protect our babies,” Gov. Kay Ivey said in a post on Twitter in perhaps the most straightforward comment.

In his own Twitter post Saturday, U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, said, “Today we celebrate the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson. The right to life must always be protected.”

After the Supreme Court’s decision last year in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Alabama legislature implemented what’s considered to be among the harshest anti-abortion laws in the country. Under that law, abortion providers can be charged with a felony except in cases where the mother’s life is in danger.

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Still, Congressman Gary Palmer, R-Hoover, said Saturday on Twitter that, “There is still work to be done to protect the lives of the unborn.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden posted eight messages on Twitter on Friday and Saturday opposing the Supreme Court ruling and vowing to remove abortion restrictions. He also released a statement Saturday saying that the court “took away a constitutional right from the American people.”

On Republicans wanting to continue to push limits on abortion, Biden said in the statement, “Their agenda is extreme, dangerous and out-of-step with the vast majority of Americans.”

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville used the anniversary to promote his months-long block on military promotions as a protest over a Pentagon policy that provides paid leave and travel expenses for servicemembers to journey to states where abortion is still legal. Tuberville has argued the policy is illegal because it did not receive congressional approval.

“If Democrats can’t pass legislation to authorize the abortion policy, then it shouldn’t be the policy,” Tuberville said in a Twitter post that linked to his op/ed in The Washington Post.