Health care providers sue Alabama officials over threats of prosecution in abortion aid

A group of health care providers Monday sued Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and district attorneys in the state, seeking to stop them from prosecuting those who aid Alabamians seeking to access abortion care in states where it is legal.

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Alabama filed the lawsuit on behalf of West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa; Dr. Yashica Robinson, based in Huntsville, and Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama in Montgomery. The court is composed of two Trump-appointees with one vacant judgeship.

“No Alabama law authorizes such prosecutions. Nor could it,” the lawsuit stated. “That would be a blatant extraterritorial overreach of state power that not only contravenes the Due Process Clause, the First Amendment, and the fundamental constitutional right to travel, but also the most foundational principles of comity upon which our federalist system rests.”

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