Alabama says yes to a total ban on abortion

However, Iveys has not announced how she intends to do, but is perceived to be opposed to abortion, the BBC reports.

The state senate voted yes with the numbers 25 to 6. If Ivey signs the law comes into force after six months - if not stopped in court. Activists hope that the proposal can challenge the law on free abortion, adopted by the United States Supreme Court in 1973.

The abortion law that was voted through in Alabama is also expected to face stiff opposition in courts. The only circumstance where abortion is permitted according to the proposal is if the mother's health is in danger.

"Our proposal says that the baby in the womb is a person," said Republican Terri Collins, who supports the proposal after the vote.

Democratic Senator Bobby Singleton contended that doctors make criminals:

- This is an attempt by men to control women's bodies.

He resembled the vote of the law as a "rape" of the state of Alabama.

"This is reprehensible," he said during a speech in connection with the vote.

The legislative text compares the number of aborted fetuses in the United States since the 1973 legislation with the number of dead in the Holocaust, in Stalin's Gulag camp and in the genocide in Rwanda.

The comparison has received harsh criticism.

"It is immensely offensive to use the memory of the men, women and children who lost their lives in the Holocaust and in other genocides as an argument against women's right to self-determination," says Elisabeth Smith at the Guttmacher Institute who researches reproduction and health.

Just this year, abortion restriction laws have been implemented in 16 US states, but none have been as restrictive as the Alabama bill. In Georgia, a so-called "heartbeat" was voted in March. According to it, it is illegal to perform an abortion after the first heartbeat of the fetus could be perceived - something that can happen around week six in a pregnancy. Critics say that many women will not even realize that they are pregnant before it is too late for an abortion. A similar law has previously been voted on in Kentucky, Mississippi and Ohio and Idaho 2018, and has been on proposals in several other states.