TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Jul 31, 2023

The West Alabama Women's Center and the Alabama Women's Center sued the state in federal court today to block Alabama from prosecuting people who help others travel out of state to get abortions, reports Reuters. The Yellowhammer Fund, an abortion advocacy group, filed a similar lawsuit. Both lawsuits argue that any such prosecution would violate a basic right to travel between states under the U.S. Constitution and cite remarks made by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall in an August 2022 radio interview that Alabamans who help others travel to states where abortion is legal could be prosecuted as criminal accomplices.