A group of Alabama healthcare providers have scored a legal win after a judge allowed a lawsuit to proceed.
The lawsuit seeks to prevent state Attorney General Steve Marshall from prosecuting those helping residents have an abortion in states where the procedure is legal.
“This case is simply about how a state may not prevent people within its borders from going to another state, and from assisting others in going to another state, to engage in lawful conduct there,” U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson wrote in his ruling denying Marshall’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
“Alabama can no more restrict people from going to, say, California to engage in what is lawful there than California can restrict people from coming to Alabama to do what is lawful here. In this sense, the case is not an ‘especially difficult call,’ including that it may violate the constitutional right to travel and freedom of expression,” he added.
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