Chris Aluka Berry/ReutersThe bill being considered in the Alabama Senate—which bans abortion outright in the state—was no laughing matter. But multiple times during the debate Tuesday, the gallery descended into snickers at male legislators’ confusion about human biology. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Clyde
The bill being considered in the Alabama Senate—which bans abortion outright in the state—was no laughing matter. But multiple times during the debate Tuesday, the gallery descended into snickers at male legislators’ confusion about human biology.
The senator then used that claim to argue that under the bill, a woman could end her pregnancy as long as she did not know she was pregnant. The claim, which Chambliss repeated several times during the debate, left many viewers feeling confused. Tuesday’s debate on the bill was dominated largely by male legislators, many of whom seemed intent on letting the audience know they were not medical professionals. At one point, Sen. Roger Smitherman asked Chambliss to explain why an egg did not count as human life under his bill.
Two of the three women in the Alabama Senate also participated in the debate Tuesday, at times showing palpable frustration with their male counterparts. When Chambliss struggled to define when exactly a woman should know she was pregnant, Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison informed him he had given a “typical male answer.”
Sen. Bobby Singleton , incensed after an amendment he proposed allowing exceptions for victims of rape or incest went down, laid into Senate Republicans.
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