Pat Robertson Calls Alabama Abortion Ban ‘An Extreme Law’

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The Alabama abortion ban sent to the governor’s desk Tuesday is even too severe for televangelist Pat Robertson, who called it an “extreme law.”

“I think Alabama has gone too far, they’ve passed a law that would give a 99-year prison sentence to those who commit abortions,” he said Wednesday on “The 700 Club.” “There’s no exception for rape or incest. It’s an extreme law and they want to challenge Roe v. Wade, but my humble view is that this is not the case we want to bring to the Supreme Court because I think this one’ll lose.”

The Alabama bill is part of a nationwide push by anti-abortion activists to get a state abortion ban all the way up to the Supreme Court, where they hope that the conservative majority will defang Roe v. Wade. The legislation has not yet been signed, so it is very far from certain that it would even make it to the highest court.

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  1. I read somewhere today that some religious freaks want to keep the rape exception because they’re afraid of having multiracial kids.

  2. LOL. GOP getting a little scared that Dems like Doug Jones are going to lean into this fight. Red State and Purple State Dems are going to win a lot of races next year.

  3. HAHAHAHA Holy shit, when you’ve gone so far with your Christofacism that you’ve lost Pat “God punishes the gay with hurricanes” Robertson, I’d say you’ve lost the battle. Maybe not the war just yet, but the battle is lost.

  4. A lot of shivering going on in Hades right now?

  5. Pat Robertson parts ways with Alabama’s GOP

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