And people hear this and applaud it, meaning the likelihood they believe what they just heard.

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Dem. Rep. Falsely Claims Alabama Has Harsher Penalties for 'Having an Abortion' Than for Rape

On Wednesday morning, Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) slammed Alabama's new abortion law, uttering a grotesque lie about the pro-life law. She said that a woman who gets an abortion would be given a harsher sentence than a rapist, under the new law.

"I want to offer a thought about Alabama in particular," Porter said at the Center for American Progress (CAP) Ideas Conference in Washington, D.C. "Under this new law, the penalty — the criminal penalty — for raping somebody is lower than the criminal penalty for having an abortion."

"So that tells you something about how these lawmakers think about women’s bodies and the control of women’s bodies, when they think that being violated sexually is a lesser offense compared to making the choice not to bring a new life into this country when you are not capable, able, ready, or willing to do so," she argued.

Porter claimed that Alabama legislators have no idea what it is like to be a mother. "And I think that just reflects that there is a deep, deep lack of understanding of what it means to be a mother, the responsibility that comes with being a mother, the weight that you carry financially, socially, economically, all of it. The way that it affects your professional life, the way that it affects your family dynamic, your marriage. All of these things are incredibly important and incredibly personal decisions," she said.

In conclusion, the congresswoman declared, to applause, "Our government has no business deciding my most intimate moments."

This was strong rhetoric, but Porter is entirely wrong about the bill and about what it means.

In fact, H.B. 314, the Human Life Protection Act, does not penalize the woman getting an abortion, but rather the abortionist who kills the life inside her. The law could not be clearer on this fact. The law intends "to provide that a woman who receives an abortion will not be held criminally culpable or civilly liable for receiving the abortion."

The law states that "No woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed shall be criminally or civilly liable. Furthermore, no physician confirming the serious health risk to the child's mother shall be criminally or civilly liable for those actions."

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