This bill would prohibit Internet service providers, cell phone service providers, and content delivery networks from accepting or forwarding any HTTP request to an application that permits a person to obtain abortion producing drugs. This bill would prohibit persons offering abortion producing drugs from enrolling any person as a customer in a system providing information technology that permits a person to obtain abortion producing drugs for delivery in the state. This bill would prohibit certain information technology providers from allowing its product or capabilities to be used for the sale or delivery of abortion producing drugs in the state. This bill would prohibit physical data centers from hosting any information technology capabilities that may be used for the sale or delivery of abortion producing drugs in the state and would prohibit payment providers from facilitating payment for the delivery of an abortion producing drug. This bill would provide that a first violation for any provider or service is a Class C felony and a second or subsequent violation is a Class B felony. This bill would require Internet service providers and cell phone service providers to prohibit and remove certain domain names and IP addresses known to offer the sale or delivery of abortion producing drugs, and would authorize the Attorney General to continuously monitor the Internet to identify such domain names and IP addresses. This bill would provide that a person who provides an abortion producing drug through domain names or IP addresses in violation of this act is guilty of a Class A felony if use of the drug results in an abortion and a Class C felony in all other circumstances. This bill would require the Attorney General to maintain a civil action for certain violations of this act seeking an injunction and a $10,000 fine. This bill would require 50 percent of any fine collected by the Attorney General to be deposited in the Attorney General's general operating account and would require the Attorney General to fund grants to qualifying Alabama Pregnancy Resource Centers with the remaining 50 percent. This bill would provide affirmative defenses to violations of this act if the defendant was unaware of the unlawful violation and takes certain action to prevent the violation. This bill would provide certain service providers with immunity from liability relating to certain actions to restrict access to or availability of information relating to abortion producing drugs and certain actions relating to the denial of service to persons who provide elective abortions or manufacture, distribute, or arrange payment for abortion producing drugs. This bill would also authorize a woman who received an abortion producing drug, her husband, her child, her parent, or her sibling to have a cause of action against any information content provider, Internet computer service provider, provider of an abortion producing drug, or person for wrongful death of an aborted child.

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Introduced: 26-23H-5, 26-23H-3