Alabama Attorney General to pursue legal action against fugitive uteruses

Let’s check in on the issue of abortion, now that it’s been sent back to the states:

Alabama’s Republican attorney general said in a court filing that he has the right to prosecute people who make travel arrangements for pregnant women to have out-of-state abortions.

In a court filing Monday, attorneys for Attorney General Steve Marshall wrote that providing transportation for women in Alabama to leave the state to get an abortion could amount to a “criminal conspiracy.”

The court filing comes in response to lawsuits against Marshall that was filed in July from two women’s health centers and Yellowhammer Fund, an organization which says it provides “financial and practical support for those who are pregnant and require assistance.” The plaintiffs argue that Marshall violated their constitutional rights by publicly stating that organizations which help pregnant women in Alabama get an abortion out of state could be criminally investigated.

It was a staple of Savvy Punditry for many years to assert that overruling Roe would just result in quick resolutions that would allow the Savvy Pundit to never have to worry about the issue again, or come to think of it ever before. Brett Kavanaugh’s trademark vacuous “are we the baddies?” concurrence in Dobbs more or less added this mode of argument to the United States Reports. But it was always extremely stupid.