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Groups preparing for legal challenges to voter-approved abortion measure
Legal challenges still lie ahead on how the state’s existing statutory abortion scheme interacts with a measure enshrining a right to abortion in the state’s Constitution. Voters handily approved the […]
Mayes issues opinion to shield doctors who perform abortions
Arizona doctors can't be prosecuted for performing abortions after 15 weeks if they make a "good faith clinical judgment'' that the procedure is necessary to prevent a woman's death or "substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function,'' Attorney General Kris Mayes said Thursday.
Gov. Katie Hobbs signs near total abortion ban repeal – now what?
Gov. Katie Hobbs signed legislation May 2 to repeal a territorial-era abortion law. But her signature does not end debate on the issue.
The truth about Arizona’s pro-life law and 2 Republicans attacking it
Rarely does one’s decision mean life or death for thousands. But those are the stakes as Sens. Shawnna Bolick and T.J. Shope, and their Senate colleagues deliberate. May they choose life.
GOP lawmakers could face political consequences with vote to repeal abortion ban
The head of a key anti-abortion group is warning lawmakers not to repeal the territorial-era law that outlaws all abortions except to save the life of the mother.
Arizona agrees to pay for gender-affirming surgery for state employees
Arizona legislators said they are “disappointed” that the state has agreed to pay for gender-affirming surgeries for state employees in a consent decree that settles years of class action litigation by a University of Arizona professor.
Two organizations trying to influence state politics attempting to get exemptions for Prop 211 disclosures
Rebuffed in their bid to totally quash a voter-approved ban on "dark money,'' two organizations involved in trying to influence Arizona politics are now trying to at least get themselves and their donors exempted from its provisions.
With executive order, Hobbs, Mayes seek to prevent abortion prosecutions in Arizona
Gov. Katie Hobbs says she's giving Attorney General Kris Mayes authority over any abortion prosecutions in Arizona – and Mayes has made it clear that she doesn’t want to see anyone prosecuted over abortions.
Hobbs, Salman, reproductive rights group announce effort to protect rights to contraceptives
Gov. Katie Hobbs joined a state lawmaker and the leader of a reproductive rights advocacy group Thursday to announce an effort to enact a law protecting the rights of all women to access contraceptives.
Groups sue to invalidate Prop 211
The Center for Arizona Policy, the Arizona Free Enterprise Club and two “Doe” donor plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission seeking to strike Proposition 211 from the books.
Activists file abortion ballot proposal
Arizona voters may get a chance to keep abortion legal even if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Post-Roe Arizona abound in possibilities
Arizona is facing the possibility of a total ban on abortions this year if states get back the power to enforce their own abortion regulations.
