An over century-old Arizona law that bans abortions in nearly all circumstances can again be enforced after a judge lifted an injunction.
An Arizona law that bans abortions in nearly all circumstances can again be enforced after a Pima County judge lifted an injunction that had left the pre-statehood law dormant for nearly five decades.
The court's decision earlier this year, in the Mississippi case called Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, put the question of abortion policy back in the hands of states. But abortion rights advocates are likely to appeal, meaning the state of abortion law in Arizona is still far from settled.
A companion law also adopted in the 19th century said a woman could face at least one year in prison for obtaining an abortion. That was repealed only last year, though it's unclear if any woman served time for it. Congress granted statehood to Arizona in 1912.when the Roe decision made abortion legal nationwide.
Brnovich, saying he wanted to provide"clarity and uniformity" to state abortion law, moved to lift the injunction in July. The state's lawyers maintained that those laws were passed only because of the limitations set by Roe v. Wade, and that the pre-statehood law should once again be the law of the land now that Roe's no longer in effect.The ruling almost immediately escalated the political impact of the Dobbs decision, which had prompted protests at the state Capitol in June.
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