Three weeks ago, the Arizona Legislature, heeding a call to “protect women’s health,” passed SB1324. This bill mandated that doctors adhere to an outdated medication protocol when administering drugs for a medication-induced abortion. Ignoring medical studies, scientific evidence, and the standard of care, our legislators said that in this case physicians had to follow the FDA precisely, as well as what was written on a drug label printed in 2000.

An Arizona woman accused of faking a cancer diagnosis in order to get state Medicaid funding to cover a late-term abortion genuinely believed she was sick, her defense attorney said Thursday.

The head of the state's chief anti-abortion group said she will move to block any legislation to allow doctors in Arizona to use RU-486 to terminate pregnancies using the new standards adopted this past week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed three bills targeting abortion providers, including one requiring them to follow outdated federal guidelines for the most common abortion drug.

A bill awaiting Gov. Doug Ducey’s signature or veto would require doctors to administer medication abortions using outdated federal standards.

Prosecutors want to prevent defense attorneys from questioning a doctor on his decision not to try to save a premature baby born to a woman accused of faking cancer to get a publicly-funded abortion.

State lawmakers voted Wednesday to restrict how doctors can use a drug for medication abortions to an existing federal standard, even if that standard changes.

Citing the controversial and questioned undercover videos, a House panel voted Wednesday to outlaw the use of aborted fetuses for medical research.

Ignoring a possible lawsuit, a Senate panel voted Tuesday to erect a new hurdle in the path of Planned Parenthood getting Medicaid funds for family planning services.

Slapped down in an earlier bid by federal judges, abortion foes at the Legislature are throwing up new roadblocks to Planned Parenthood being able to provide any services at all through the state's Medicaid program.