An Alabama state lawmaker who ran for office on “medical freedom” has introduced legislation that would allow law enforcement agencies to prosecute abortion patients on charges of murder and assault.
The bill from Republican state Rep Ernie Yarbrough and several other GOP lawmakers would repeal a provision in state law that exempts abortion patients from prosecution and inserts a so-called “personhood” clause that would redefine “person” to the moment an embryo is fertilised, giving a zygote the same rights as the person carrying it.
