Elizabeth Warren announces plan to protect abortion rights – live
Massachusetts senator and 2020 candidate unveiled plan after Alabama’s near-total abortion ban passed Tuesday night
Today we will also continue to track the fallout from Alabama’s near-total abortion ban, passed Tuesday night. The law made it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion except in cases of serious health risk to the mother.
It is the most severe law in the nation. It is highly unlikely it will go into effect. Rather, it is meant to one meant to challenge the landmark US Supreme Court decision Roe versus Wade, which legalized abortion in the US in 1973.