Women in Alabama who take abortion pills to end their pregnancies can be prosecuted, Attorney General Steve Marshall told CBS News. alnews alpolitics abortion alabamanewsnetwork
Marshall says these women can be prosecuted by the state even if the pills were prescribed from somewhere else in the country.
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, Alabama issued an abortion ban, which targets providers. While that ban says people can’t be held criminally liable for getting an abortion, Marshall suggested to CBS News the state could instead prosecute under a 2006 law. That law makes it a crime to “knowingly, recklessly or intentionally cause or permit a child to be exposed to, to ingest or inhale, or to have contact with a controlled substance, chemical substance or drug paraphernalia.”
Marshall says that “promoting the remote prescription and administration of abortion pills endangers both women and unborn children.”
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