Recent Alabama State Senate Commentaries

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Last Women Standing
What Alabama’s state Senate did was nothing less than a return to the dark ages for women. In Tuesday’s debate in the Alabama state legislature, Democratic Senator Linda Coleman-Madison asked her Republican colleague a question regarding a proposed bill that would be the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Coleman-Madison asked Republican Senator Clyde Chambliss about a passage in...
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May 17, 2019
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