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Try CasePortal for Free[Consolidated.] J. Thompson denies, in part, the attorney general’s motion to dismiss this lawsuit regarding the constitutionality of prosecuting anyone who assists in facilitating out-of-state abortions brought by an advocacy group, also on behalf of its clients, and a women’s center also on behalf of its staff. The group and center seek to prohibit the prosecution of those who assist pregnant women to obtain abortions where it is still legal in other states alleging it is a violation of the right to travel, freedom of speech, freedom of association, the right to fair-notice due process claims, and is overbroad. The attorney general cannot prevent people to travel to another state, “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.” Their overbreadth and the fair-notice due process claims are dismissed, but the advocates’ freedom of speech, right to travel, freedom of association and extraterritoriality claims survive the motion.