26-23C-2
(a) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds all of the following: (1) Under the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148, federal tax dollars, via affordability credits,
subsidies provided to individuals between 150-400 percent of the federal poverty level, are
routed to exchange participating health insurance plans, including plans that provide coverage
for abortions. (2) Federal funding of insurance plans that provide abortions is an unprecedented
change in federal abortion funding policy. The Hyde Amendment, as passed each year
in the Labor Health and Human Services Appropriations bill, and the Federal Employee Health
Benefits Program, FEHBP, prohibit federal funds from subsidizing health insurance plans that
provide abortions. Under this new law, however, exchange participating health insurance plans
that provide abortions can receive federal funds. (3) The provision of federal funding for
health insurance plans that provide abortion coverage is nothing...
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26-23E-11
Section 26-23E-11 Promulgation of rules. The Board of Health shall publish amended rules for
abortion and reproductive health care centers that are consistent with this chapter
by December 28, 2013. Such rules shall take effect within the time frame required by the Alabama
Administrative Procedure Act. (Act 2013-79, p. 165, §11.)...
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26-23E-13
Section 26-23E-13 Civil action for damages. Any person who can demonstrate personal injury,
including physical injury, emotional distress, or mental anguish, where such injury has resulted
from the failure of an abortion or reproductive health center to conform to the requirements
of this chapter, may maintain a civil action for damages against the abortion or reproductive
health center and against the administrator of the facility. (Act 2013-79, p. 165, §13.)...

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26-21-6
Section 26-21-6 Penalties for violation of chapter. (a)(1) Any person who intentionally performs
or causes to be performed an abortion in violation of the provisions of this chapter
or intentionally fails to conform to any requirement of this chapter, shall be guilty of a
Class A misdemeanor. (2) Any conviction of any person for any failure to comply with the requirements
of this chapter may result in the suspension of the person's professional license for a period
of at least one year and shall be reinstated after that time only on such conditions as the
appropriate regulatory or licensing body may require to insure compliance with this chapter.
(b) In addition to whatever remedies are available under the common or statutory law of this
state, failure to comply with the requirements of this chapter shall provide a basis for professional
disciplinary action under any applicable statutory or regulatory procedure for the suspension
or revocation of any license for physicians,...
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26-23-4
Section 26-23-4 Life of mother exception. Section 26-23-3 shall not apply to a partial-birth
abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother. (Acts 1997, No. 97-485, p.
843, §4.)...
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26-23G-8
Section 26-23G-8 Anonymity of certain individuals in court proceedings. In every civil, criminal,
or administrative proceeding or action brought under this chapter, the court shall rule whether
the identity of any woman upon whom an abortion has been performed or attempted to
be performed shall be preserved from public disclosure if she does not give her consent to
such disclosure. The court, upon motion or sua sponte, shall make such a ruling and, upon
determining that her anonymity should be preserved, shall issue orders to the parties, witnesses,
and counsel and shall direct the sealing of the record and exclusion of individuals from courtrooms
or hearing rooms to the extent necessary to safeguard her identity from public disclosure.
Each order shall be accompanied by specific written findings explaining why the anonymity
of the woman should be preserved, why the order is essential to that end, how the order is
narrowly tailored to serve that interest, and why no reasonable less...
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26-23H-3
Section 26-23H-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) ABORTION. The use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug,
or any other substance or device with the intent to terminate the pregnancy of a woman known
to be pregnant with knowledge that the termination by those means will with reasonable likelihood
cause the death of the unborn child. The term does not include these activities if done with
the intent to save the life or preserve the health of an unborn child, remove a dead unborn
child, to deliver the unborn child prematurely to avoid a serious health risk to the unborn
child's mother, or to preserve the health of her unborn child. The term does not include a
procedure or act to terminate the pregnancy of a woman with an ectopic pregnancy, nor does
it include the procedure or act to terminate the pregnancy of a woman when the unborn child
has a lethal anomaly. (2) ECTOPIC PREGNANCY. Any pregnancy resulting from...
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26-23G-1
Section 26-23G-1 Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Unborn
Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act. (Act 2016-397, §1.)...
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26-21-5
Section 26-21-5 Medical emergencies. This chapter shall not apply when, in the best clinical
judgment of the attending physician on the facts of the case before him, a medical emergency
exists that so compromises the health, safety, or well-being of the mother as to require an
immediate abortion. A physician who does not comply with Sections 26-21-3 and 26-21-4
by reason of this exception shall state in the medical record of the abortion, the
medical indications on which his or her judgment was based. (Acts 1987, No. 87-286, p. 397,
§5.)...
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26-23E-14
Section 26-23E-14 Adverse licensure action. (a) The failure of any physician, nurse practitioner,
physician assistant, registered professional nurse, or licensed practical nurse to conform
to the requirements of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted under provision of this
chapter may be grounds for adverse licensure action, up to and including license revocation.
(b) Any abortion or reproductive health center that is found to have provided an abortion,
in a manner that violates this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted under the provision
of this chapter, may be subject to adverse licensure action, up to and including license revocation.
(Act 2013-79, p. 165, §14.)...
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