The Alabama state Legislature’s passage of the country’s most restrictive abortion law is “unconstitutional,” “irresponsible” and “shameful,” Sen. Doug Jones said Thursday on a conference call with reporters.

Jones, Alabama’s lone Democrat elected to statewide office, said he was “deeply disappointed” in the bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Kay Ivey that does not carve out exemptions for rape and incest.

“We need to call this bill what it is. We need to call it what Pat Robertson said it is – extreme. It is the most extreme abortion ban in the country, and it is in my view a product of what happens when you so gerrymander political districts that people don’t have to be accountable to extreme sides of an issue,” the senator said. “This bill uses rape victims and victims of incest of all ages, even minors, as political pawns.”

Jones said he doesn’t believe that the law represents the views of mainstream Alabamians.

“It is just a complete shame that the most extreme voices on both sides of such a sensitive issue have been the loudest during this debate,” he said. “I just don’t think that that is representative of what people in Alabama think or what they want for their government.”

Alabama’s junior senator suggested that it was hypocritical for pro-life lawmakers to pass the bill while not addressing problems like Alabama’s high infant mortality rate or making healthcare more accessible to women.

“I really hope that our state legislators stop playing politics and start focusing on policies that absolutely strengthen families,” Jones said.

To that end, Alabama’s junior senator said he has a bill in the works – the Healthy MOMs Act – that would make pregnancy a qualifying event for health insurance purposes. The bill would expand healthcare options for expectant mothers, he said.

But the state needs to do more, Jones said, including expand Medicaid and luring pediatricians and OB/GYNs to rural areas where healthcare options are lacking.

Updated at 1:46 p.m. Jones held the call with reporters, not supporters.