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Arizona Supreme Court to hear arguments on conflicting abortion law
The Arizona Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday about whether Arizona women will lose virtually all their rights to terminate a pregnancy.
Supreme Court judge switches course, says he won’t take part in hearing on abortion laws after all
Reversing course, Supreme Court Justice William Montgomery said Thursday he won't be participating in the Dec. 12 hearing on abortion laws or deciding the outcome of a legal fight on whether virtually all abortions in Arizona are illegal.
Hobbs says she believes Arizonans will support provisions of proposed constitutional right to abortion
Gov. Katie Hobbs said Tuesday she doesn't believe that some Arizonans may find provisions of a proposed constitutional right to abortion unacceptable and refuse to support it.
Supreme Court judge says he has done nothing to make him unable to fairly judge Planned Parenthood lawsuit
Supreme Court Justice William Montgomery said he has done or said nothing that would make him unable to fairly judge a pending lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood Arizona over whether abortion remains legal in Arizona.
State voters could decide next year whether to enshrine abortion rights into constitution
Arizona voters will decide next year whether to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.
Supreme Court judge won’t disqualify himself from hearing about abortion despite pro-life views
Supreme Court Justice William Montgomery won't disqualify himself from hearing a pending case brought by Planned Parenthood over whether abortion remains legal in Arizona even though as a prosecutor he said the organization "is responsible for the greatest generational genocide known to man.''
Hobbs urges court not to eliminate women’s right to have abortions
Citing a series of stories of women whose abortions have changed their lives, Gov. Katie Hobbs is urging the Arizona Supreme Court not to take that right away from them.
Mexican abortion-pill networks reach across U.S. border to help immigrants without access
Verónica Cruz Sánchez watched something remarkable happen from the office of her women’s rights organization in Guanajuato, the capital city of one of this country’s most conservative Catholic states. Founder of Las Libres – “the free” in English – she had built an underground abortion-pill network in a country where having the procedure could have meant going to jail.
Christian lawmakers push battle over church and state after Roe
In the harshly lit breakfast bar of a Fairfield Inn, a dozen men and women sit hunched over microwaved eggs and steaming cups of coffee. Representing more than half the states in the nation, they have come to southern Virginia to craft policies to take back home: measures to ban abortion, restrict gender-affirming care and condemn gay marriage.
Indigenous people unite to navigate abortion access after Roe
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade a year ago, demand for Indigenous Women Rising, a national fund that covers the costs of abortions – and the traditional ceremonies that follow – for Indigenous people has skyrocketed.
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.
Dobbs vs. Cathi Herrod: Dereliction of duty to the pro-life cause
Cathi Herrod and her supporters in Arizona and the pro-life movement across the country had better find a message on abortion that can be supported grudgingly by the single-issue pro-life voter and simultaneously not alienate those voters who might never imagine personally needing abortion access but want it available for those who may.
