Deborah Ann Stabenow is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Michigan,a seat she has held since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,she became the state's first female U.S. senator after winning the 2000 election.
Susan Margaret Collins is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maine. A member of the Republican Party,she has held her seat since 1997 and is Maine's longest-serving member of Congress.
Shelley Wellons Moore Capito is an American politician and retired educator serving in her second term as the junior United States senator from West Virginia,a post she has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,Capito served seven terms as the U.S. representative from West Virginia's 2nd congressional district from 2001 to 2015. The daughter of three-term West Virginia governor Arch Alfred Moore Jr,she is the dean of West Virginia's congressional delegation,having served in Congress since 2001.
Vivian Davis Figures is an American politician who is a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate,representing the 33rd District in Mobile County since she was elected on January 28,1997,to serve the remaining term of her late husband,Senator Michael Figures,who was the President pro tempore of the Alabama Senate. She was re-elected without opposition in 1998 and 2002.
Kay Ellen Ivey is an American politician who is the 54th governor of Alabama,serving since 2017. Originally a conservative Southern Democrat,Ivey became a member of the Republican Party in 2002. She was the 38th Alabama state treasurer from 2003 to 2011 and the 30th lieutenant governor of Alabama from 2011 to 2017.
Terrycina Andrea "Terri" Sewell is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,she has served since 2011 as the U.S. representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district,which includes most of the Black Belt,as well as most of the predominantly African American portions of Birmingham,Tuscaloosa,and Montgomery.
The legality of abortion in the United States and the various restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly,depending on the laws of each state or other jurisdiction,although there is no uniform federal law. Some states prohibit abortion at all stages of pregnancy,with few exceptions;others permit it up to a certain point in a woman's pregnancy,while some allow abortion throughout a woman's pregnancy. In states where abortion is legal,several classes of restrictions on the procedure may exist,such as parental consent or notification laws,requirements that patients be shown an ultrasound before obtaining an abortion,mandatory waiting periods,and counseling requirements.
Douglas Allen Collins is an American lawyer,politician,and Air Force veteran who is the presumptive nominee for United States secretary of veterans affairs in the Second Trump Administration,having been selected by President-elect Donald Trump in November 2024. He previously served as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 9th congressional district from 2013 to 2021.
A six-week abortion ban,also called a "fetal heartbeat bill" by proponents,is a law in the United States which makes abortion illegal as early as six weeks gestational age,which is when proponents claim that a "fetal heartbeat" can be detected. Medical and reproductive health experts,including the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,say that the reference to a fetal heartbeat is medically inaccurate and misleading,for a conceptus is not called a fetus until eight weeks after fertilization,as well as that at four weeks after fertilization,the embryo has no heart,only a group of cells which will become a heart. Medical professionals advise that a true fetal heartbeat cannot be detected until around 17 to 20 weeks of gestation when the chambers of the heart have become sufficiently developed.
Debra Kay Lesko is an American politician who has represented Arizona's 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2018. The district is in the West Valley portion of the Phoenix metropolitan area and includes Glendale,Surprise,Sun City,Peoria,and part of western Phoenix. A member of the Republican Party,Lesko previously served in the Arizona State Legislature from 2009 to 2018.
Gerald H. Allen is a Republican lawmaker in the Alabama Senate. He previously served in the Alabama House of Representatives.
Sara I. Gideon is an American politician who served as the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party from Freeport,she represented the 48th district in the Maine House of Representatives,which includes part of Freeport and Pownal in Cumberland County.
Gordon Douglas Jones is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,Jones was previously the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001. He is the most recent Democrat to win and/or hold statewide office in Alabama.
Anahila Lose Kanongata'a is a New Zealand social worker and politician. She served as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party from 2017 to 2023.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama were held on November 3,2020,to elect the seven U.S. representatives from the state of Alabama,one from each of the state's seven congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections.
The Human Life Protection Act,also known as House Bill 314 and the Alabama abortion ban,is an Alabama statute enacted on May 15,2019,that imposes a near-total ban on abortion in the state. Originally set to go into effect in November 2019,a legal challenge against the bill delayed implementation until 2022. The bill was passed in both chambers of the Alabama Legislature in a party-line vote and signed by Republican governor Kay Ivey. Under the Human Life Protection Act,a doctor who performs a banned abortion in the state of Alabama is guilty of a Class A felony,and could be sentenced to life imprisonment. Several proposed amendments that would have allowed abortions in cases of rape and incest were rejected.
Abortion in Alabama is illegal. Historically,Alabama's abortion laws have evolved from strict regulations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to a period of liberalization following the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade,which legalized abortion nationwide. However,Alabama has consistently enacted legislation aimed at restricting access to abortion.
Abortion in Missouri is legal up to the point of fetal viability as a result of 2024 Missouri Amendment 3 taking effect on December 6,2024,30 days after the November 5,2024 general election.
Abortion in Mississippi is illegal. The new law took effect on July 7,2022,after Mississippi State Attorney General Lynn Fitch certified on June 27,the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization on June 24 of that year. State Attorney General Lynn Fitch's certification made Mississippi's 2007 'trigger law' go into effect and ban all abortions in the state,“except in the case where necessary for the preservation of the mother's life or where the pregnancy was caused by rape".
Abortion in Ohio is legal up to the point of fetal viability as a result of abortion rights being placed into the Ohio State Constitution by November 2023 Ohio Issue 1.
