Arizona's 1864 abortion ban doesn't overrule 50 years of more recent regulations

Arizona's 1864 abortion ban doesn't overrule 50 years of more recent regulations

Abortions in Arizona are legal up to 15 weeks of pregnancy, after an appeals court ruled late Friday that the state’s Civil War-era abortion ban doesn’t overrule nearly 50 years of laws tightly regulating abortions and instead only applies to non-physicians who might try to provide abortions.

Court: Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban doesn’t overrule 50 years of more recent regulations

Abortions in Arizona are legal up to 15 weeks of pregnancy, after an appeals court ruled late Friday that the state’s Civil War-era abortion ban doesn’t overrule nearly 50 years of laws tightly regulating abortions.