On June 25, 2026, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville put out a press release to celebrate. Not a new road, not a new factory, not jobs for Alabama. He was celebrating the day the Supreme Court took away the right to an abortion.
Tuberville and a group of Republican senators introduced a resolution marking four years since the Court's Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. He called it "a historic decision that has saved the lives of countless unborn children" and promised, "I will always fight for the lives of the most vulnerable among us."
Tuberville is now running for governor of Alabama. So it's worth looking at what that "historic decision" he's so proud of has actually meant for the women and families of his state.
What Dobbs really did to Alabama
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022, it didn't make abortion safer or rarer. It handed each state the power to ban it. Alabama already had a law waiting.
Alabama's ban is one of the strictest in the entire country. It makes no exceptions for rape or incest. A 12-year-old who is raped cannot get an abortion in Alabama. The only way out is a "serious health risk" to the mother.
The law also threatens doctors with up to 99 years in prison for performing an abortion. That's a longer sentence than many people get for murder. The day Dobbs came down — the day Tuberville is throwing a party for — Alabama's remaining clinics were ordered to shut their doors.
This is the real-world result of the ruling Tuberville calls historic: a state where a doctor can go to prison for life, and where rape and incest victims have no choice at all.
It didn't stop at abortion — it hit IVF too
The thinking behind these bans is that an embryo is a full person. Once you go down that road, it doesn't just end abortion. It reaches families who are desperately trying to have a baby.
In February 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are "children" under state law. Within days, the state's biggest hospital and other clinics paused all IVF treatments because they were afraid of being sued or charged. Couples who had saved for years and scheduled procedures suddenly had them canceled.
So the same movement Tuberville is cheering didn't just close abortion clinics. It briefly shut down the one path many Alabama couples had to start a family. That's what "fighting for the unborn" looked like on the ground in his own state.
Tuberville already held our troops hostage over this
This isn't a new cause for Tuberville. He cared about it enough to put the U.S. military on hold.
For 10 months in 2023, Tuberville blocked more than 450 military promotions — generals and admirals included — because he was angry the Pentagon helped servicemembers travel to get reproductive care. Military leaders said he was hurting national security. Even his own Republican leader criticized him.
After all that, he gave up without winning a single change. He put our troops and their families at risk for nothing — all over abortion. You can see his full record on his report card.
So when Tuberville says he'll "always fight," believe him. He's already shown he'll hold up the promotions of the people who defend this country to make his point.
A governor for whom?
A governor's job is to make life better for the people of the state — to help families, protect kids, grow jobs. Tuberville is asking Alabamians to put him in charge while bragging about a decision that:
- Banned abortion in Alabama with no exceptions for rape or incest
- Threatened doctors with up to 99 years in prison
- Helped trigger the chaos that paused IVF for Alabama couples trying to have children
He calls that "saving lives." The women turned away from care, the rape victims with no options, and the couples whose IVF was canceled might see it differently.
When a politician celebrates taking away your rights, take him at his word about what he'll do with more power.
Source
This post was prompted by Tuberville's own June 25, 2026 press release, "Tuberville Commemorates Anniversary of SCOTUS Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade."
