Alabama state Sen. Garlan Gudger revealed his family has been threatened for his support of the state’s new anti-abortion law.
“Overall, it’s been tough,” Gudger said in an interview on Alabama Public Television. “It’s been tough dealing with the balancing of my wife and my children being attacked. I don’t obviously like that part. No one should be attacked or be threatened with harm for a difference of opinion. But overall, I’m doing well besides that.”
Gudger said his whole family has been targeted since the vote and the bill being signed into law.
“People have contacted my 15-year-old son on Snapchat and social media. My wife has been contacted that they were going to break into our house and rape and do other things to her. It’s been a lot of stress at our household and a lot of the other colleagues on the floor are the same way. But it’s something we have to deal with, and we’re dealing with it,” he said.
Now that a few weeks have passed, he said the threats have been slowly subsiding. Gudger said he will stand his ground on the issue despite the threats.
Alabama is just one of the states whose legislators have passed strict anti-abortion bills in recent weeks. Louisiana’s Democratic governor signed a ban on abortions after six weeks into law Thursday.
“I know there are many who feel just as strongly as I do on abortion and disagree with me — and I respect their opinions,” Gov. John Bel Edwards said Wednesday. “As I prepare to sign this bill, I call on the overwhelming bipartisan majority of legislators who voted on it to join me in continuing to build a better Louisiana.”
