GOP Alabama AG Says He Has Right to Prosecute Women Who Aid Travel for Abortions

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In a court filing this week, lawyers for Marshall argued even making travel plans for someone to get an abortion amounts to criminal conspiracy.

"The conspiracy is what is being punished, even if the final conduct never occurs. That conduct is Alabama-based and is within Alabama’s power to prohibit," the filing for the attorney general reads.

Marshall is looking to dismiss a lawsuit brought against him by two women's health centers and an abortion rights advocacy group. They argued the attorney general violated their constitutional rights by saying they could be investigated for helping provide travel and plans out of state for abortion care, something the attorney general is sticking by.

Marshall made his comments during a radio show appearance in July.

"If someone was promoting themselves out as a funder of abortions out of state, then that is potentially criminally actionable for us," he said at the time.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-alabama-ag-says-he-has-right-to-prosecute-women-who-aid-travel-for-abortions/ar-AA1g2Tuu

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1. ... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges

or immunities of citizens of the United States ... US Constitution, 14th Amendment

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2. Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116 (1958)

... The right to travel is a part of the "liberty" of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment ... In Anglo-Saxon law, that right was emerging at least as early as the Magna Carta ...

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/357/116/

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3. 18 USC 241

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same ...

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both ...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241

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4. United States v. Guest, 383 U.S. 745 (1966)

... The constitutional right to travel from one State to another, and necessarily to use the highways and other instrumentalities of interstate commerce in doing so, occupies a position fundamental to the concept of our Federal Union. It is a right that has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized ...

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/383/745/

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. Unless the SCOTUS decides women are like runaway slaves

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Can you conceive how broad this directive is?

If you allow an Alabaman pregnant woman to stay overnight at your home, you are subject to prosecution.

If you're a motel (same situation as above), you also are subject to prosecution.

What's next? If you allow an "escaped" pregnant woman to fill her tank with gas in another state? If you lend her money?

[Takket]

7. So if gambling is illegal in Alabama is it criminal conspiracy to plan a vacation to Las Vegas?

[Celerity]

8. Bama, going to the whip in the Shithole Sweepstakes

[ecstatic]

9. I hope everyone is paying attention

All of these GOP thugs need to be voted out. It's just a matter of how long it's going to take for everyone to understand that these laws aren't just harming so called "irresponsible" women. It would be downright foolish to become pregnant under these draconian circumstances.