Alabama can’t prosecute people who help women leave the state for abortions, Justice Department says
1 year, 1 month ago

Alabama can’t prosecute people who help women leave the state for abortions, Justice Department says

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said Alabama cannot use conspiracy laws to prosecute people and groups who help women leave the state to obtain abortions. The Justice Department filed a statement of its position in consolidated lawsuits against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, arguing that such prosecutions would be unconstitutional. The lawsuits, filed by an abortion fund and former providers, seek a court ruling clarifying the state can’t use conspiracy statutes to prosecute people who help Alabama women travel elsewhere to obtain an abortion. The department said that just as Marshall cannot stop women from crossing state lines to obtain a legal abortion, “neither can he seek to achieve the same result by threatening to prosecute anyone who assists that individual in their travel.” Alabama is one of several states where abortion is almost entirely illegal after the U.S. Supreme Court, in a decision known as Dobbs, handed authority on abortion law to the states.

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Judge: Alabama groups can sue over threat of prosecution for helping with abortion travel
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Judge: Alabama groups can sue over threat of prosecution for helping with abortion travel

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge on Monday said abortion rights advocates can proceed with lawsuits against Alabama’s attorney general over threats to prosecute people who help women travel to another state to terminate pregnancies. The groups said Marshall has suggested anti-conspiracy laws could be used to prosecute those who help Alabama women obtain an abortion in another state. While …

Medical groups urge Alabama Supreme Court to revisit frozen embryo ruling
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Medical groups urge Alabama Supreme Court to revisit frozen embryo ruling

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Groups representing Alabama doctors and hospitals urged the state Supreme Court on Friday to revisit a decision equating frozen embryos to children, saying the ruling is blocking fertility treatments and harming the medical community. The Medical Association of the State of Alabama and the Alabama Hospital Association filed a brief supporting a rehearing request in the case …

Letters to the Editor: Law professor: Alabama embryo ruling leaves no doubt that we’re becoming a theocracy
10 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Law professor: Alabama embryo ruling leaves no doubt that we’re becoming a theocracy

LA Times  

Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on April 15, 2023. This week in class, while discussing the Alabama Supreme Court’s frozen embryo decision, this exchange transpired: I displayed the words of Alabama’s chief justice on the screen. A student born in a foreign country raised his hand and said that Alabama was …

Column: Alabama’s highest court declared frozen embryos people. The U.S. Supreme Court is to blame
10 months ago

Column: Alabama’s highest court declared frozen embryos people. The U.S. Supreme Court is to blame

LA Times  

The Alabama Supreme Court’s breathtakingly arrogant, slapdash and pernicious opinion conferring personhood on newly formed embryos vividly illustrates the consequences of another reckless decision: the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe vs. Wade. Astonishingly, the sole focus of the court’s analysis was whether Alabama’s wrongful death law encompasses “extrauterine children — that is, unborn children who are located outside of …

Critics slam Alabama court ruling that frozen embryos are 'children'
10 months ago

Critics slam Alabama court ruling that frozen embryos are 'children'

Raw Story  

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos outside the womb are "children" has drawn criticism from the White House and the top US infertility association, which called the decision a "terrifying development." Resolve: The National Infertility Association said the Alabama ruling could have "devastating consequences" for fertility clinics in the southern state that offer in-vitro fertilization. "Alabama's Supreme Court …

Alabama health care providers sue over threat of prosecution for abortion help
1 year, 4 months ago

Alabama health care providers sue over threat of prosecution for abortion help

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Abortion rights advocates in Alabama — where abortion is almost entirely illegal — filed lawsuits Monday against the state’s attorney general seeking to prevent him from prosecuting people who help patients travel outside the state to end pregnancies. “What the attorney general has tried to do via these threats is to effectively extend Alabama’s abortion ban outside …

Alabama Republicans would charge abortion patients with murder under proposed legislation
1 year, 7 months ago

Alabama Republicans would charge abortion patients with murder under proposed legislation

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An Alabama state lawmaker who ran for office on “medical …

I Live In Alabama. Our Cruel New Abortion Law Has Made My Life Absolute Hell.
2 years, 2 months ago

I Live In Alabama. Our Cruel New Abortion Law Has Made My Life Absolute Hell.

Huff Post  

The author with her fiancé and their son. Courtesy of Alyssa Gonzales On June 21, 2022 — just three days before the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization came out — I got the news: I was pregnant. After the Dobbs decision, Alabama’s trigger law went into effect and banned abortion almost completely — with only …

What I learned about the consequences of abortion bans from practicing reproductive medicine in Alabama.
2 years, 7 months ago

What I learned about the consequences of abortion bans from practicing reproductive medicine in Alabama.

Slate  

On Friday, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in a decision by Justice Samuel Alito. 8, has essentially halted all abortions in the state, Alabama offers a glimpse of a troubling future in which the provision of medical care for pregnant people is deeply intertwined with the cultural attitudes that seek to criminalize “undesirable” pregnancy outcomes. Morality aside, health …

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