Arizona judge says state can enforce near-total abortion ban
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Judge: Arizona can enforce near total abortion ban
Arizona can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years, a judge ruled Friday, meaning clinics statewide will have to stop providing the procedures to avoid the filing of criminal charges against doctors and other medical workers.
An Arizona judge just reinstated a 150-year-old total abortion ban
Before Arizona was even a state, its first territorial legislature enacted a total ban on abortion in 1864.On Friday, a state judge lifted a decades-old injunction blocking that law. Now, any person who helps “procure the miscarriage” for a pregnant person, “unless it is necessary to save her life” risks spending two to five years in prison.In her ruling, released a day before a 2022 law banning abortion after 15 weeks was slated to take effect,…
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