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.

Alabama’s attorney general cannot prosecute people and groups who help Alabama women travel to other states to obtain abortions, a federal judge ruled.

A federal judge blocks Alabama's AG from prosecuting those aiding out-of-state abortions, citing violations of travel and speech rights.