Yarbough, who was elected this past November, claimed he was running for office on a “medical freedom” platform in the wake of covid.
“I ran on a passion of things like medical freedom because I had friends who lost their jobs who served during COVID in the medical profession in my county, my district,”. “So medical freedom is something that’s important to me, and the right to make choices for ourselves.” Very ironic, sir. Under the 2019 Alabama abortion that took effect last year, women and people seeking abortions cannot be held criminally or civilly liable. Yarbrough’s bill, for which text is not yet available, would repeal a section of the state homicide code that excludes abortion,. “Abortion is murder, and justice demands that our laws treat it as such,” Yarbrough said in a statement. He’s calling it The Abolish Abortion in Alabama Act, in a gross nod to the slavery abolition movement.