Legislation

House Bill 312 will allow licensed midwives to perform care in the setting of freestanding birth centers. This bill will directly reverse the de facto bans impacting the performance of midwife care in the setting of freestanding birth centers and it would redefine a birth center as “not a hospital."

House Bill 378 will make it a misdemeanor for someone to aid a minor in accessing an abortion or an abortion-inducing drug without the consent of the minor’s parent or guardian.

We oppose HB111 and SB92. These bills establish a narrow definition of gender that seeks to erase the lived realities of transgender people and will be used to limit the rights of transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people in Alabama.

SB13 proposes an amendment to the Alabama Constitution that would protect individuals’ rights to make and carry out their own reproductive decisions.

HB454, misleadingly titled the Equal Protection Act, seeks to codify abortion as murder.

Senate Bill 35 seeks to add an exception to Alabama’s abortion ban. But abortion ban “exceptions” aren’t workable solutions — they require pleading cases to judges, lawyers, and hospital administrators.