BREAKING: The Arizona Court of Appeals ruling clears up months of uncertainty over the legality of abortion in Arizona.
Arizona appeals court judges on Friday ruled that abortions performed in the state by licensed physicians are legal up to 15 weeks of gestation despite a 19th-century, near-total abortion ban.
At issue in the case were two abortion laws passed 158 years apart that appeared to be in conflict: a 19th century, Civil War-era near-total ban on abortion that outgoing Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich wanted to uphold and a more recent law passed by the Arizona Legislature that took effect in late September and bans abortions after 15 weeks of gestation"absent a medical emergency" with no exceptions for rape or incest.
“We are relieved for all of Arizona that the Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood and ouroffice,” Pima County Attorney Laura Conover said in a statement Friday. “The ruling prevents an effort to go back to a mid-19th century, near-total ban that would not end the need for or choice of abortion. It would have only made it far less safe for those seeking medical procedures.”“What a dramatic 11th-hour turnabout for reproductive health,” Conover's statement said.
Ongoing uncertainty about the two abortion laws prompted the Arizona Medical Association and Dr. Paul Isaacson, a Phoenix abortion provider,
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