Pro-choice groups challenge Alaska’s 40-year-old abortion laws

Reproductive rights groups are suing the state because they think Alaska law unconstitutionally prevents women from having an abortion after the first trimester. It’s a challenge to rules that have been on the books for 40 years.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights laid out their challenge in a press conference Wednesday morning. They say laws written in the 1970s set different rules for abortions performed after the first tr