The state of Alabama is attempting to take the parental rights away from a female prisoner who is trying to get an abortion. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“A fight over an incarcerated Alabama woman’s ability to have an abortion took a strange turn as the state moved to terminate the woman’s parental rights in order to prevent her from accessing the procedure.

The woman, who is referred to in court documents as Jane Doe, is seeking a temporary restraining order against the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office so she can be furloughed and transported 75 miles to the closest abortion clinic in Huntsville, Alabama. Rick Singleton, the local sheriff, told the inmate that since abortion is an “elective” medical procedure, rather than an emergency, she’d have to obtain a court order to leave the jail. Doe’s pregnancy is in its first trimester.

With representation from the ACLU of Alabama, Doe argued that she has a federal right to an abortion. Her team filed suit in federal court because the state court judge to whom Doe’s request would usually go had said she would deny the order. U.S. District Judge Abdul Kallon is expected to issue a ruling concerning Doe’s request Friday.”