By Karen Baker
Chief Executive Officer
Originally published in LNP | Lancaster Online on June 30, 2019.
“She’s not my type.”
That’s what the sitting president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, said when asked about E. Jean Carroll’s accusation of sexual assault in the 1990s — as if it would be some badge of honor to have been his type.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act this week, which would essentially ban all abortions unless the mother’s life is at risk.
This includes cases of sexual assault and incest.
That’s right. Alabama’s HB 314 would force survivors of rape or incest to carry their babies to term. Doctors who perform abortions could face up to 99 years in prison—decades longer than the maximum sentence for those convicted of second-degree rape.