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Alabama Lawmakers Move To Outlaw Abortion In Challenge To Roe V. Wade

The House overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday that could become the country's most restrictive abortion ban. It would make it a crime for doctors to perform abortions at any stage of a pregnancy.
A view of the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala. A sweeping abortion bill passed the state House Tuesday, and is expected to win final passage in the Republican majority Senate.

In what would likely become the most restrictive abortion ban in the country, the Alabama House Tuesday passed a bill that would make it a crime for doctors to perform abortions at any stage of a pregnancy, unless a woman's life is threatened. The legislation is part of a broader anti-abortion strategy to prompt the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the right to abortion.

Republican state" during, at times, contentious debate on the House floor.

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