Multiple anti-abortion rallies are set to take place across Michigan as the Supreme Court decides whether states have the right to defund Planned Parenthood. Protests were scheduled for Wednesday, April 2,

Alabama cannot prosecute doctors and reproductive rights groups that help patients travel out of state for abortions, a federal judge ruled Monday. Why it matters: Alabama has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country,

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,

U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson sided with an abortion fund and medical providers who sued Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall after he suggested they could face prosecution under anti-conspiracy laws. Thompson’s ruling declared that such prosecutions would violate both the First Amendment and a person’s right to travel.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall had threatened to use criminal conspiracy laws to stop people from helping Alabamians get out-of-state abortions.

A federal judge ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute people who cross state lines to help someone get abortion care.