WHAT:
After the Alabama Senate voted to remove an amendment adding exceptions for rape and incest last Thursday, the Senate is now poised to pass HB314 when it returns to the floor on Tuesday, May 14. This bill would ban abortion and criminalize abortion providers with felonies that could result in up to 99 years in prison.
Alabama reproductive rights organizations POWER House, Yellowhammer Fund, ACLU of Alabama, and Planned Parenthood are gathering with their supporters on Tuesday evening to protest this ban. This protest will happen regardless of how the Senate votes.
WHO:
Speakers from POWER House, Yellowhammer Fund, ACLU of Alabama, and Montgomery Area Reproductive Justice Coalition.
WHEN:
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 6 pm
WHERE:
Alabama State House, 11 S Union Street, Montgomery, AL 36106
For media questions, contact Rebecca Seung-Bickley at rseungbickley@aclualabama.org or Amanda Reyes at Amanda@yellowhammerfund.org