Washington DC (CNN) Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called the recently signed abortion law in Alabama, and other pieces of legislation that restrict access to the procedure, an example of "appalling attacks on women's lives and fundamental freedoms."

Clinton joined the chorus of Democratic voices speaking out against the restrictive abortion bill signed into law by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday, which amounts to a near-total ban on the procedure in the state. Clinton lumped that bill in with recently passed legislation in other states that aims to limit access to abortion.

"The abortion bans in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Mississippi are appalling attacks on women's lives and fundamental freedoms. Women's rights are human rights. We will not go back," Clinton tweeted , echoing her 1995 speech at the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women.

The controversial new Alabama law could punish doctors who perform abortions with life in prison. The law does not allow exceptions for cases of rape and incest but only "to avoid a serious health risk to the unborn child's mother," for ectopic pregnancy and if the "unborn child has a lethal anomaly."

"None of us should accept a future in which our daughters and granddaughters have fewer rights than we do. Choose a way to help, ask a friend to join you, and let's get to work," Clinton added, pointing her followers to advocacy groups and organizations that are working "to elect pro-choice candidates" and "organize for the future."