Alabama introduces two bills banning abortion.

With the attitude of, “if they can do it, so can we…” two Alabama legislators have introduced bills that are eerily similar to those recently passed in South Dakota.

“I thought if South Dakota can do it, Alabama ought to do it, because we are a family-friendly state,” said state Sen. Hank Erwin, R-Montevallo, who has introduced a bill in the Senate that would even ban abortions in cases where a woman became pregnant because of rape or incest.
A similar bill has been introduced in the House by Rep. Nick Williams, R-McIntosh. The bills would make it a felony crime to perform abortions in Alabama.
With only seven days left in the 2006 session, the bills do not have much chance of passing this year, but supporters say they expect to keep trying.

Apparently family friendly means taking away women’s rights. Who knew they were two mutually exclusive things? Similar legislation is being proposed in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Scary.