MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal court in Alabama partially denied the state attorney general’s motion to dismiss a constitutional challenge to the state’s prosecution of anyone who assists in facilitating out-of-state abortions. “Alabama can no more restrict people from going to, say, California to engage in what is lawful there than California can restrict people from coming to Alabama to do what is lawful here.” Advocates’ right-to-travel, freedom of speech, freedom of association and extraterritoriality claims survive the motion.
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