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The Human Life Protection Act, also known as House Bill 314 (HB 314) [1] and the Alabama abortion ban, [2] is an Alabama statute enacted on May 15, 2019, that imposes a near-total ban on abortion in the state. Originally set to go into effect in November 2019, a legal challenge against the bill delayed implementation until 2022.
The bill, which banned abortions at every stage of pregnancy and made it a crime for doctors to perform the procedure (except in the case of a medical emergency), was introduced into the Lower House on April 2, 2019. The bill passed the Lower House on April 30, the Senate on May 14, and was signed into law by then-Governor Kay Ivey on May 16, 2019.
The bill does not include a carveout for IVF, though it does state that nothing in the bill should “be construed to authorize the prosecution of any woman for the death of her unborn child.”
Alabama’s state legislature is also dominated by Republican lawmakers, who passed legislation through the state House and Senate last week to “provide civil and criminal immunity for death or ...
The House and the Senate still need to vote on a unified version of the legislation before they send it to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, for a signature.
House Bill 490 prohibiting abortions after a heartbeat can be detected was passed by a vote of 73–29 in the Alabama House on March 4, 2014. In doing so they became the first state to pass such a bill. [83] The bill later died in committee. [84] In 2019, Alabama passed an abortion law that is more far-reaching than a heartbeat law. [85]
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On August 29, 2014, US District Judge Lee Yeakel struck down as unconstitutional two provisions of Texas' omnibus anti-abortion bill, House Bill 2 that was to come into effect on September 1. The regulation would have closed about a dozen abortion clinics, leaving only eight places in Texas to get a legal abortion, all located in major cities.