The state attorney general had raised the possibility of charging doctors with criminal conspiracy for recommending abortion care out of state.

A federal judge in Alabama ruled late Monday evening that the state attorney general cannot prosecute interest groups for helping women travel out of the state to obtain abortions. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson wrote in a 131-page opinion that the right to interstate travel,

Alabama cannot prosecute people and organizations who help residents of the state travel elsewhere to get abortions, a federal judge has ruled, in one of the first decisions over the right to travel for abortion.