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

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

A federal judge on Monday ruled Alabama cannot prosecute groups that help women receive out-of-state abortions. The case stems from