State legislators are planning an assault on the constitutional right of Arizonans to enact their own laws unfettered by legislative interference.

Forty-four years ago this month, the Supreme Court of the United States deemed abortion on demand legal. Women’s rights groups celebrated and abortion clinics thrived as much of society embraced the idea of women rewriting their futures after making a “mistake.”

The incoming speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives has hired the top attorney for a powerful anti-abortion group as general counsel for the legislative chamber, one of a string of staffers with deep conservative resumes chosen by Rep. J.D. Mesnard.

Attorneys for the state have agreed not to enforce a controversial new law aimed at defunding abortion providers, at least for the time being.

More than a year after his Born Alive Protection Act passed the House, Rep. Trent Franks, R-Glendale, called on senators to act on the bill before the legislative calendar runs out.

An Arizona woman has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for faking a cancer diagnosis to get the state to pay for her mid-term abortion and for criminal convictions in two other cases.

State Medicaid officials have agreed not to try to cut off family planning dollars from Planned Parenthood, at least not yet.

Abortion providers filed suit in federal court Thursday to block a new state law that is designed to cut off other state and federal dollars they get.

Planned Parenthood says it will work with its abortion-rights allies in eight states to repeal laws that may be vulnerable following the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down tough abortion restrictions in Texas.

A new ruling Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court likely voids one Arizona abortion restriction and calls others into question.