The ban, which was made law more than a decade before Arizona even became a U.S. state, could put abortion providers in prison for up to five years.
“[The ruling] is the result of extremist Attorney General Brnovich and other anti-abortion elected officials who are on a mission to strip Arizonans from their right to live under a rule of law that respects our bodily autonomy and reproductive decisions,” Brittany Fonteno, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Arizona said in a statement following the ruling.
Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson said it was inappropriate for the court to try and reconcile all those differing statutes at this juncture. “While there may be legal questions the parties seek to resolve regarding Arizona statutes on abortion, those questions are not for this court to decide here,” she wrote. Not a great year for courts making decisions, huh?his celebration following the decision, thanked the court for providing “clarity and uniformity on this important issue.
But, instead of clarity, clinics will be forced to stop providing abortions to avoid criminal penalties against providers. “Today’s ruling by the Pima county superior court has the practical and deplorable result of sending Arizonans back nearly 150 years,” Fonteno said in her statement. “No archaic law should dictate our reproductive freedom and how we live our lives today.
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