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The Alabama Legislature finished the 2023 Regular Session last Tuesday, adjourning “sine die,” which is Latin for adjourning “without a day to return.”

Exception to the exclusion of abortion and that is if the health of the mother is involved. rape and incest, as you were just hearing there from this senator is not an exception to the law. so this is one of if not the most extreme restriction of abortion law in the land right now. now, that lawmaker was vivian davis figures. she's the longest serving woman in alabama's senate. she joins me now. senator, thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you, mr. cuomo. it's good to be with you this evening. >> the pleasure is mine. so is it true, senator, that you reached out to the governor's...

They turned around ask still voted the bill to become law. it was also in the senate that it was those all republican men that voted this into law, but before it got to the senate it came from the house of representatives, which is where it started. and let me make sure everyone knows that it was a woman, representative terry collins, who sponsored this bill and it was also the other four or five republican women in the house of representatives who signed on as co-sponsors. so this wasn't a law that was put into effect by just men. and, of course, the governor is a female and she could have pu...

Those two exceptions should be made, they would not, they would not. i have to say there were four senators who did vote for that exception and that was senators ward, jones, marsh and mcclendon. and i applaud them for that. it was also in the senate that it was those all-republican men that voted this into law, but before it got to the senate it came from the house of representatives, which is where it started. and let me make sure everyone knows that it was a woman, representative terry collins, who sponsored this bill and it was also the other four or five republican women in the house of r...

Message with her assistant as well as put it in writing and had it hand delivered to her before she signed the bill asking her if she would please send over an executive amendment that would make those two exceptions in the bill, incest and rape, and she did not need to -- she did not do that and she went on to sign that bill into law. >> what are your fellow lawmakers tell you when you say, you know, when you went with that gentleman there -- it's one thing when it's on the floor being recorded, but what are the men and other colleagues saying to you about why they won't recognize rape and in...