Alabama’s Republican attorney general said in a court filing that he has the right to prosecute people who make travel arrangements for pregnant women to have out-of-state abortions.
In a court filing Monday, attorneys for Attorney General Steve Marshall wrote that providing transportation for women in Alabama to leave the state to get an abortion could amount to a “criminal conspiracy.”
The court filing comes in response to lawsuits against Marshall that was filed in July from two women’s health centers and Yellowhammer Fund, an organization which says it provides “financial and practical support for those who are pregnant and require assistance.” The plaintiffs argue that Marshall violated their constitutional rights by publicly stating that organizations which help pregnant women in Alabama get an abortion out of state could be criminally investigated.
“Alabama can no more regulate out-of-state abortions than another state can deem its laws legalizing abortions to apply to Alabama,” the Yellowhammer Fund lawsuit argues.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Alabama’s Republican attorney general said in a court filing that he has the right to prosecute people who make travel arrangements for pregnant women to have out-of-state abortions.
The court filing comes in response to lawsuits against Marshall that was filed in July from two women’s health centers and Yellowhammer Fund, an organization which says it provides “financial and practical support for those who are pregnant and require assistance.” The plaintiffs argue that Marshall violated their constitutional rights by publicly stating that organizations which help pregnant women in Alabama get an abortion out of state could be criminally investigated.
Marshall is now asking Judge Myron Thompson to dismiss the lawsuit, saying that helping a woman avoid Alabama’s restrictions by facilitating an abortion elsewhere is a conspiracy.
“The conspiracy is what is being punished, even if the final conduct never occurs,” Marshall’s filing states.
In the wake of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision last summer, several Republican-led states passed strict anti-abortion laws, while several others, including Alabama, that had passed so-called trigger laws anticipating an eventual overturn of Roe v. Wade saw their new restrictions go into effect.
Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, who wrote on X Wednesday, “California will NOT cooperate with any state that attempts to prosecute women or doctors for receiving or providing reproductive care.”
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Can we officially define republicans as not the party of small government?
They never were.
Not in my lifetime certainly, but I do think the original idea at some point was supposed to be that, yes.
The whole argument of states rights is 100% a loaf of bullshit.
Anything you’ve heard other wise is a lie.
The original argument was we believe in state’s rights…… to have slavery. That’s what republicans are saying when they use the states rights argument, they believe slavery should be legal.
I’m not kidding. If you are republican you are literally a fucking racist pig. It’s not an exaggeration, it’s not debatable. Create another party if you think you are not a racist, sexist, xenophobic literal antichrist. The Republican Party is 100% all of these things.
Between this and flat out ignoring the supreme court when they don’t like the ruling, Alabama Republicans are really pushing for a constitutional crisis.
Yeah but also as humans we have the right to literally do anything we want to people like this guy. …anything at all.
It’s about time Americans start understanding they are humans and can do anything to these psychotic inhuman greedy assholes.
This is the key understanding right here.
Republicans want to rule you. They don’t have popular ideas and the majority of American citizens don’t agree with them.
Stop voting for Republicans, they don’t believe in our democracy.
I’ve seen handmaids tale and I don’t like that timeline.
He also has the right to go fuck himself
Notable, since the most-ardent anti-abortionists are always those nobody else would fuck.
Know what I would do if I were a billionaire? I’d fund cases fighting these clowns. Hundreds of challenges to these stupid asshats like the “Scopes Monkey Trial” (which was a test case, designed to kill a law, if you didn’t know). But then again, no one who believes in actual altruism becomes a billionaire, so this is sort of fantasy.
