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Alabama can’t prosecute groups who help women travel to get an abortion, federal judge says - Clover - Apr 1 2025
CNN , April 1 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/us/alabama-abortion-groups-ruling/index.html
Quote:Alabama’s attorney general cannot prosecute people and groups who help Alabama women travel to other states to obtain abortions, a federal judge ruled Monday.
US District Judge Myron Thompson sided with an abortion fund and medical providers who sued Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall after he suggested they could face prosecution under anti-conspiracy laws. Thompson’s ruling declared that such prosecutions would violate both the First Amendment and a person’s right to travel.
US District Judge Myron Thompson It is one thing for Alabama to outlaw by statute what happens in its own backyard. It is another thing for the state to enforce its values and laws, as chosen by the attorney general, outside its boundaries by punishing its citizens and others who help individuals travel to another state to engage in conduct that is lawful there but the attorney general finds to be contrary to Alabama’s values and laws.
RE: Alabama can’t prosecute groups who help women travel to get an abortion, federal j... - Lemonade - Apr 2 2025
Good.
Quote:In a declaration of summary judgment on behalf of the plaintiffs, Thompson said applying that same argument to other circumstances reveals its flaws.
“For example, the Alabama Attorney General would have within his reach the authority to prosecute Alabamians planning a Las Vegas bachelor party, complete with casino-style gambling, since casino-style gambling is outlawed in Alabama,” Thompson wrote.