alabama. alabama state senate joined the statehouse by passing purposely impossible to achieve standards for abortion clinics in alabama. they call these trap laws. they're laws that put new regulations on clinics specifically for the purpose of shutting them down. the trap law in alabama passed through the statehouse earlier this year, state senate passed it yesterday, which is why these people, hundreds, were at the state capital protesting against that anti-abortion bill. this is alabama. now the bill is going to the republican governor who has said he will sign it. we watched this same tactic at work in mississippi this year. the effort to close down the last single remaining abortion clinic in the state of mississippi through the same, same type of legislation. these bills all look the same. it is impossible to meet regulations designed specifically to shut down the clinic. for awhile, we watched in mississippi as though it were an anomaly, as if mississippi were