{"id":221826,"date":"2020-04-13T18:45:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T23:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=221826"},"modified":"2020-04-13T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T23:45:05","slug":"federal-judge-abortions-continue-alabama-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/federal-judge-abortions-continue-alabama-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge rules abortions will continue in Alabama during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A federal judge ruled<\/a> on Sunday that Alabama cannot ban abortions because of the coronavirus. The state had ordered that all non-essential or elective surgeries be postponed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The debate began in many states<\/a> as to whether or the “choice” of abortion is essential or elective.<\/p>\n

In Alabama, the government ordered that only emergency medical procedures could proceed in order to allow health care workers to focus on COVID-19 patients and to protect the dwindling supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks and gloves. The state announced that only procedures “to avoid serious harm from an underlying condition or disease, or necessary as part of a patient’s ongoing and active treatment” were allowed to be performed. Pregnancy is not a disease and abortion is not a treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n