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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Women in Alabama are not a monolith. Y'all come check it out for yourself.

Opinion | On the Front Lines of the War on Women (Published 2019)

In Alabama, the supermajority always wins.

www.nytimes.com

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5 years

there's one protester outside the state house passing out coat hangers

Abortion Should Be Free

@YellowFund

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This amazing protester is outside the Alabama State House! We #WontGoBack ! Live tweets start at 4pm! #WontBeBanned #StopTheBans #NoHB314 #ALpolitics

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"I'm not trained medically so I don't know all the proper timelines, but I have been told there is some period of time you can know when a woman is pregnant" gallery is cackling at this statement.

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"That's up to God and the Lord to make a judgment that's not up to us," Sen Smitherman. "We're telling a 12 yo girl who through incest and rape is pregnant and we're telling her that she doesn't have a choice."

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This STARTS in the South. We tell you to pay attention. But you write us off for laying in our own shit, then cry like babies when it's happening in your state. Quit waiting for the part where you're waving your hands in the air screaming 'How did this happen?' and listen to us!

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Coleman-Madison brings an amendment: if a woman is forced to keep a child, Alabama must provide prenatal and medical care until the child is 13.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Hey here’s a really great lesson in how not to treat local journalists just trying to do their damn best to serve their communities.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

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"for you all to want to pass a bill that is going to take that choice away from that woman--just like sen Smitherman said--you want to play God. You all think you rule the world. And you may think you do, but you do not." Figures referring to the Rep. male-dominated majority

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Figures wants to make it a Class A felony for a man to have a vasectomy. Roll is quickly called and it failed. I don't think they liked that one.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

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“This bill isn’t about the right to life. This bill is about control.” Coleman-Madison

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

6 years

I WENT TO A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN ALABAMA AND IT'S FN HARD TO MAKE A LIVING DOING THIS JOB BUT I DO IT BECAUSE I THINK IT MEANS SOMETHING BIGGER THAN MYSELF YOU ASSHAT

Elon Musk

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6 years

@JessicaHuseman @reveal No, they’re just some rich kids in Berkeley who took their political science prof too seriously

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

4 months

I have never felt cooler and braver and riled up than seeing comments yelling at people to "GOOGLE HER!" I could never be this brave without community, specifically Alabama community, standing with me. I love y'all for real.

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@AbbeyCrain

5 years

The gallery erupted in applause when sen. Vivian Figures walked out into the chamber wearing a white suit with a pink shirt.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Figures introduces an amendment: any attorney fees billed as a result of a lawsuit that ensues as a result of this legislation will be paid for by the senators that voted for the bill. *gallery applause/woos*

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Coleman-Madison said the sin is not abortion but bringing a child into the world without resources for them and the mother

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Abbey Crain

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"This bill doesn't do anything to address the real issue. For the life of me I'm trying to figure out why do we pass laws like this when we don't have any support to help people," Coleman-Madison She's referring to healthcare, education, medicaid, etc

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Singleton breaks down. He has two little girls. "You just said to my daughter 'You don't matter. You don't matter in the state of Alabama. The state of Alabama don't care nothing about you baby."

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

"It does not make sense that we are going to spend millions and millions of dollars to take something up here that is going to be declared unconstitutional when we need millions and millions of dollars so our kids can have insurance so our rural hospitals can open." Smitherman

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Sen. Smitherman describes how his child had birth defects in the womb. Him and his wife chose to have the baby because they believed in God. "I became a professional in resuscitation." "The point is I had the choice."- gallery claps

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

We're about 30 minutes out from the Alabama State Senate vote for the near-total ban on abortion. #alpolitics

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

"was there anything in there that said what would happen to the man that got her pregnant?" Figures is about to bring the heat.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

2 years

Watching the political ads of “prolife” state senate and gubernatorial hopefuls as Alabama’s primaries wrap up—just hours after 14 babies were murdered at their elementary school in Texas—in what world does it all make sense?

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@AbbeyCrain

5 years

"We want them here, but we don't want to take care of them." Coleman-Madison #alpolitics

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

"We want the government out of our bedroom." Says she wants them out of her womb. The gallery loved that one.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Figures said she is ashamed that this bill was written by a woman, Sen. Collins. #alpolitics

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

I don't know about y'all but I'm a woman before I'm a reporter and this is one emotional debate.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

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Smitherman said we are telling women they can go anywhere but a doctor to have an abortion. Says things will go back to back alleys and coat hangers. Chambliss said he hopes no woman would do that. *Gallery groans.* #alpolitics

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Coleman-Madison said women will always find a way to have abortions, except poor people won't have safe options.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

FIgures said Roe V. Wade made it so all women could get an abortion, bc rich women were always able to get abortions. She said this bill would primarily affect the health of poor rural women. She is proposing an amendment to address Medicaid.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Ok sidenote....these men arguing the medical logistics of the female reproductive system is wild. See my story from yesterday:

Abortion ban to be decided by 31 men, 3 women

Tomorrow and 31 men and three women will decide if virtually all abortions will be banned in Alabama, pending Gov. Ivey’s signature.

www.al.com

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

"What are y'all gonna do with all those eggs?" Smitherman asks about embryos used during IVF

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

4 months

@PortiaMcGonagal No it is a fair question. It’s the thing I’ve tried to drill in to other ww, like quit voting against your own damn rights. FWIW I was never referring to u specifically in my response to the backlash. Mostly triggered by liberals in blue states saying we deserve this mess.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

I'm a little bit confused if he's arguing a person could get an abortion if they didn't know they were pregnant? Will work on finding out what he means.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

"The population in this state is over 50% females. It's time you start letting your voices be heard. Not only just coming here to talk some sense into these legislators, but letting your voices be heard at the polls." Figures

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Trump baby balloon popper being arrested by TPD. Don’t listen to this vid with your mom. (I wasn’t there for this. Just passed along the evidence)

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Figures said she doesn't believe in abortion but "It should be the woman's choice. That woman knows what shes up against. She knows whether she can or cant provide for that child."

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

4 years

so I've been with my husband six years and I just learned he gets in the shower from the back (farthest away from the faucet.) Is this a thing? Is this a man thing? Please advise.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

"You just raped Alabama with this bill. You just raped every little baby, you just raped every little girl. You raped her all over again with this bill." Singleton

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

"why you all want to control our bodies I will never ever know..." next amendment will "have some equality about this thing"

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

"This ain't about nobody's party. This is about the right of the woman to make a choice," Sen. Smitherman

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Good morning 🌈🖤✨ Lots of new faces around here. Just wanted to introduce myself. I’m a reporter at @aldotcom covering women and gender issues. Really tho I’m just into elevating Southern women voices bc as you saw last night, they aren’t represented in the state legislature.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

6 years

One taught me love One taught me patience One taught me pain

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

"I'm hoping your wives and daughters, especially the ones in high school and college, are watching," Coleman-Madison

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

3 months

While Alabama women and queer folk have had our rights systemically wiped away by Donald Trump’s Supreme Court, @KatieBrittforAL has spent her time auditioning to be his VP. 🧵

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Coleman-Madison said she wishes she could open up the Republican men's brains to take a peak inside. She says their mother's would all say this bill is not right.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

this is the one.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Figures brings up @acvollers reporting this morning. References the $1.7 dollars the state paid the ACLU after another abortion law was ruled unconstitutional and what the money could have paid for.

Alabama paid $1.7M to ACLU on last abortion test case

The same year Alabama paid nearly $2 million to ACLU over an abortion law that was struck down, legislators passed two more abortion laws, which are still in litigation.

www.al.com

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

"If you don't know. You're not known to be pregnant" Chambliss said. Coleman-Madison said that is a typical male answer. Truly I don't know what that means or how that would be enforced.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

The ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Power House were all outside the state house protesting. Here a protestor chastises all the Y chromosomes up in the senate

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Good night. Look for @MikeCasonAL ’s story soon. All eyes really were watching Alabama tonight. Photo is of protestors’ Handmaids Tale cloaks hung up in a tree outside the State House while they pack up to go home.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

hey groups, do whatever the heck you want and I'll write about you losing your reserved seating.

AL.com

@aldotcom

5 years

The Alabama SGA warns groups: Protest Trump during the LSU game and risk losing your reserved seating.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

4 years

ROLL TIDE ON THAT RACIST ASS. AMEN. #RTOTRA

Alabama Football

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4 years

“In this moment in history, we can’t be silent.”

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

3 months

Love this energy. But I need Bruce’s daughter, sister, niece to take his hand and show him the ways this is inextricably tied to the fall of Roe. If my 92 year old catholic grandmother can get there. So can your dads, uncles, etc.

The Next Round

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3 months

"Government is supposed to help us and our families, not prevent my son and his wife from having their first child or my grandchild." - Auburn Head Coach Bruce Pearl on the battle to protect IVF in the state of Alabama. @StevenPearl22 @coachbrucepearl

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

4 years

You ever just unnumb yourself to the fact that the state of Alabama kills people in cold rooms for crimes they didn’t commit? Most days I don’t. But today I can’t look away. I can’t pretend my life is more important than his tonight. It’s not. It’s not. It’s not.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

4 months

@PortiaMcGonagal Hi! Folks are saying I sent a mob after you. I don’t remember seeing this tweet yesterday and I didn’t @ you. Completely get wondering who I voted for. But I believe gop women deserve repro rights too. I quit Twitter a while ago bc it’s hard to find understanding.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

3 months

one more time. all people deserve access to reproductive medicine without government involvement regardless of voting history. That said. You can google me if your moral superiority continues to devoid your heart of empathy and compassion.

Minder, a person who minds.

@EquoAmicus

3 months

@democracynow @AbbeyCrain Who’d she vote for would have been my first question.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Chambliss discusses the importance of trusting God's plan. Smitherman responds "You cannot compare religion. Religion is a one on one relationship with that being."

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@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Gallery is packed

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

If I die due to gun violence, politicize the shit out of my death. Carry my urn around to debates. Show the pictures. The whole nine yards.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

3 years

Hi, sorry, I just found out an article I wrote in college is assigned reading at a southern J school and let me tell you, it is over for y'all. A student email just cured my imposter syndrome, I'm about to be insufferable k bye.

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5 years

gallery laughs when Chambliss references the fact that God gives humans free will and a choice.

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@AbbeyCrain

5 years

we are still harping on "after the female is KNOWN to be pregnant." I think this is a way to excuse the morning after pill.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

2 years

God I’m so angry. Really at a loss for how you’re supposed to love, be proud of and call home a state that treats its citizens the way it does. Tomorrow I’ll go back to hollering. But tonight is a fucking bummer. Sending love to all y’all.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

4 years

Called my mom today because I always call my mom when I'm broken. I said "everything is just so bad," and she said it wasn't all bad, "it's just all changing." And that my friends is what I am resting in. Things are changing and change is hard work. Sending love to you all today.

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Abbey Crain

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5 years

"once that person is known to be pregnant then this bill will take into effect. that bill will highlight that period of time." people are losing it up here in the gallery, laughing at Chambliss' intro

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Abbey Crain

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5 years

"If we pass this bill, my hope is that all ladies will be educated by their parents or guardians that should a situation like this occur, you need to go get help immediately so they could get the physical help they need. If they wait justice delayed is justice denied." Chambliss

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Amendment failed. I’m headed down to cover the protest outside the state house. Follow @MikeCasonAL @itsmelissabrown @lyman_brian @StatehouseKim for abortion ban updates til I get back 🤗

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️That’s it folks. Near total Alabama abortion ban bill passes without rape or incest exception 25-6

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Abbey Crain

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5 years

Figures said she takes offense to the language referencing the Civil Rights movement in the bill.

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"We're just going to rally the troops again. It is for the sake of our future and our children." Figures said they are going to need all the promised outside support offered around the country to make Alabama a democracy again.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Ok I'm just gonna say it. Remember when all us girls who went to UA were talking to current UA girls about how guys seemed more aggressive/emboldened post '16 election? Please be safe this weekend. Do not leave your girl alone. Buddy up. Don't take drinks from strangers, etc.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Friendly reminder today that THE SOUTH is not a monolith and saying ignorant things to punish those that live here does not help. Thank you. #alpolitics

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

4 years

Gonna tell my kids this is Jeff Sessions

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

2 years

turns out the photos that antis use of "abortions" can seep into your brain and create shame and darkness you didn't even know was there until seeing these photos just now. like literally just now. science is powerful.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

4 months

Oh my god

Biden-Harris HQ

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4 months

Alabama woman with frozen embryos: My rage knows no bounds. I just want to be a mom and it’s wild to me that the state that I’ve called home has more say over that than I do right now

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4 years

Is that panties hanging off of lane kiffin’s face?

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

3 months

Alabama woman remains extremely angry about her family planning decisions being taken from her by the state of Alabama.

Democracy Now!

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"I was extremely angry." @AbbeyCrain had been undergoing in vitro fertilization treatments for nearly two years when the Alabama Supreme Court made its controversial ruling on frozen embryos, leading her clinic to pause treatments.

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5 years

Singleton and Figures show no signs of stopping

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5 years

"we could be saving babies lives with this money" Singleton emphasizing the legal fees taxpayers will face supporting this bill in court.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

2 years

the anger and hate I will carry in my soul forever after these last two months... there are no bounds

Bethany Bruner

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2 years

I was the ONLY reporter in the courtroom this morning as the man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, impregnating her, leading to an abortion in Indiana, was arraigned. This confirms that the case exists.

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5 years

Singleton asks how we are supposed to know what an attempted abortion is. Chambliss admits he does not know what an attempted abortion is. But then says it's when a baby survives an abortion.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

4 years

Roll tide to the Vanderbilt girl only

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@AbbeyCrain

5 years

Smitherman asks what happens with a person who is pregnant bc of incest. "Until a woman is known to be pregnant," Chambliss said. Gallery groans collectively.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

5 years

y'all singleton just asked them to read the entire nine page bill prior to the vote.

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Abbey Crain

@AbbeyCrain

2 years

The amount of fetus dm’s and replies I’m getting. Hi. I’m a living breathing human being and motherhood is a different and sometimes difficult path for everyone. It’s truly wild mind boggling how folks go to bat for embryos but can’t find a modicum of humanity for alive people.

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3 years

Really glad we’re very rich and always have a working clock in BDS. Truly can’t relate to this embarrassing problem.

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@AbbeyCrain

2 years

Good morning to everyone who woke up living in a world states like Alabama and Mississippi have lived in for years. It's bleak, but there's hope in the corners if you know where to look. Find the Southern orgs who've done this work for decades and follow their lead.

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5 years

Also. This is a filibuster. There hasn't been a vote on the ban yet.

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@AbbeyCrain

4 years

On the one year anniversary of Alabama's abortion ban, @YellowFund announced it bought one of the state's three remaining abortion clinics.

Reproductive justice non-profit buys Alabama abortion clinic

Reproductive justice non-profit, Yellowhammer Fund, bought Tuscaloosa abortion clinic.

www.al.com

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4 months

I’m very pissed off and feeling hot about it. Been v busy today 🫠✊😘Hope to share more tomorrow.

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5 years

"I take on the ebonics language when I'm in my community... Who geeked up?" Smitherman says senators are all "geeked up" (amped up) about overturning Roe V. Wade but haven't thought what that means for folks in Alabama.

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4 months

If you haven't learned by now— that you are no different than southerners (less than tbh) then I don't know what to tell you.

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3 years

Celebrities only love the South when we can save their asses. Like I love all the Georgia peach attention and all, but no way they keep that energy when our states need them. I’m over the cheeky instastories, they’re patronizing af

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"If God gives us choices, why do you think you're smarter than God?" Coleman Madison asks Chambliss. "It is not our place as humans to extinguish that life"

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5 years

Singleton says he doesn't think anyone in the room wrote this bill, but it was pushed by ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council )

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5 years

⚡️SOME NEWS⚡️ @reckonalabama is launching a newsletter for/about/by women in the South. AND I'M PUTTING IT TOGETHER! Y'all sign up and let's talk about how we can make Alabama/the South better for womxn. Seriously. I'm so excited. LETS GOOOO

Reckon | Women

We’d love to stay in touch! Want to stay up to date with the news and trends that are affecting women in Alabama and the South? Sign up for our newsletter! We won't share your email and we'll only...

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“Sweet home Alabama? There ain’t nothing god-damn sweet about it.” UA's biggest donor Hugh Culverhouse, Jr., for which its law school is named called for a boycott of the university and the state at large in the wake of Alabama's abortion ban law.

UA may give back $21.5 million to Culverhouse

Hugh Culverhouse, Jr. called for a boycott of The University of Alabama over the state’s latest near-total abortion ban law.

www.al.com

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@AbbeyCrain

4 years

GET IT?? BECAUSE WE'RE FAT??????? tired of these lazy-ass jokes. Stop making the South your racist, fat, uncultured scapegoat meme to distract from the problems facing the entire country.

The Late Show

@colbertlateshow

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Yesterday Alabama issued a statewide mask order. #LSSC

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2 years

And we wonder why we are losing women in the workforce. Proud to know this brave, smart, talented woman. It has to change.

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