After the Arizona Supreme Courtroom allowed for near-total abortion ban, a bunch of abortion-rights protesters gathered exterior the Arizona state Capitol in Phoenix on April 9, 2024.
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After the Arizona Supreme Courtroom allowed for near-total abortion ban, a bunch of abortion-rights protesters gathered exterior the Arizona state Capitol in Phoenix on April 9, 2024.
Katherine Davis-Younger/KJZZ
PHOENIX – Abortions will quickly be outlawed in Arizona besides in circumstances the place a pregnant particular person’s life is in danger. The state Supreme Courtroom has dominated Arizona ought to comply with a restrictive abortion regulation courting again to the 1860s.
Since Dec. 2022, Arizona docs have been allowed to offer abortions as much as 15 weeks right into a being pregnant, primarily based on a decrease courtroom’s interpretation of state legal guidelines. However the state Supreme Courtroom now says Arizona ought to comply with a regulation banning abortions in nearly all circumstances. It makes no exceptions for rape or incest and makes performing an abortion punishable by two to 5 years in jail.
The state will not be capable of implement the choice for 45 days, primarily based on a 2022 Maricopa County Superior Courtroom order. Deliberate Parenthood Arizona, the state’s largest abortion supplier, says it plans to proceed offering abortions within the meantime.
An effort is already underway to place a measure on 2024 ballots that may enshrine abortion rights within the state structure.
Abortion throughout the nation
The choice comes a little bit greater than per week after the Florida Supreme Courtroom determined to permit that state’s week’s 6-week ban to take impact Might 1, and a day following former President Donald Trump’s announcement that abortion ought to be left as much as the states, angering a few of his supporters forward of 2024 election.
The U.S. Supreme Courtroom reversed Roe v. Wade almost two years in the past and handed abortion choices again to states leading to a patchwork of legal guidelines throughout the nation.
Fourteen states ban abortion with very restricted exceptions, in keeping with the Guttmacher Institute, a bunch that helps abortion rights. One other 15 states defend abortion rights in numerous methods, in keeping with Guttmacher.
This November, there are efforts in a couple of dozen states, together with the one in Arizona, so as to add a query to voters’ ballots supporting abortion rights.
