A win for reproductive rights: Alabama can’t charge activists helping patients get out-of-state abortions
In the nearly three years since the US Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion, grassroots abortion funds and advocates have facilitated care for thousands of patients living in states where abortion is banned, helping them find providers in other parts of the country, organize their travel, and pay some or all of the costs. That’s what Alabama advocates were expecting to do when that state’s near-total abortion ban took effect the day Roe v. Wade fell.
Instead, these advocates found themselves embroiled in an epic legal battle with Alabama’s Attorney General, who threatened to use a criminal conspiracy statute from 1896 to prosecute anyone who helped pregnant patients obtain an abortion in another state—charges potentially punishable by decades in prison.
SOURCE: Mother Jones, by Nina Martin, 1 April 2025
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