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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 […]
Toma and Petersen claim doctors have no legal right to challenge abortion ban
Arizona's top two Republican lawmakers say doctors have no legal right to challenge a 2021 ban the GOP-controlled Legislature enacted on abortions due to fetal abnormalities because they aren't saying they intend to violate it.
Law outlawing abortions for fetal genetic defects cases won’t go undefended
A law outlawing abortions in cases of fetal genetic defects will not go undefended in court.
Judge: women no more than 15 weeks pregnant can get abortions
Arizona women who are no more than 15 weeks pregnant will be able to continue to get legal abortions through at least the end of the year, if not beyond.
Doctors want judge to rule territorial abortion law applies only to those without medical licenses
Arizona doctors want a judge to rule that the state's 1864 law banning virtually all abortions applies only to people without medical licenses.
Brnovich asks judge to restore power to criminally charge doctors who perform abortions
Attorney General Mark Brnovich is asking a Pima County Superior Court judge to immediately restore his power and the power of local prosecutors to bring criminal charges against doctors who perform abortions.
Judge will rule on law related to possible charges against doctors performing abortions
A federal judge will decide whether a provision in a 2021 law could be used to bring criminal charges against doctors who perform otherwise-legal abortions, including those to save the life of the mother.
Groups oppose bid to enforce abortion law
Abortion rights advocates are urging U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to spurn a bid by Attorney General Mark Brnovich to let Arizona immediately begin enforcing a new restriction on the procedure.
Court keeps hold on abortion law in place
A federal judge has turned back a bid by Attorney General Mark Brnovich to let the state start enforcing new abortion restrictions despite his order concluding they are likely unconstitutional.
Judge weighs legality of new abortion law
The question of whether Arizona gets to enforce a new restriction on the right to abortion could turn on whether a federal judge considers it a ban or a restriction.
Abortion providers argue Legislature illegally ceding power to drug company
Abortion providers have opened up a second legal front in their bid to block Arizona from restricting the use of medication to terminate pregnancy.
Court delays enforcement of medication abortions law at least until May
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is going to keep a temporary hold on a state rule regulating medication abortions and put an appeal of a lower court’s ruling on the fast track.
