Some attorneys in Arizona are skeptical that women who use medication or other means to terminate their pregnancies can be prosecuted under the state's pre-Roe ban on most abortions.
Some attorneys in Arizona are skeptical that women who use medication or other means to terminate their pregnancies can be prosecuted under the state'sThat doesn't mean someone won't try to prosecute a woman who administers her own abortion.
Stefanie Lindquist, the executive director of ASU's Center for Constitutional Design, was also doubtful that such a charge would hold up in court. Nonetheless, the theoretical possibility could have a chilling effect that would dissuade women from doing so, she says.Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, a Republican who was appointed to the position in April and faces Gunnigle in the general election, tells Axios that based on the 2021 repeal of the statute that explicitly penalized women for getting abortions, she doesn't believe prosecuting a woman in that scenario would honor the intent of the law.
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