Arizona judge: State can enforce near-total abortion ban

[Nevilledog]

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Arizona can enforce a near-total abortion ban that has been blocked for nearly 50 years, a judge has ruled. The decision, which likely faces appeal, means clinics in the state will have to stop abortions to avoid criminal charges against medical workers.

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Arizona judge: State can enforce near-total abortion ban
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years, a judge ruled Friday, meaning clinics across the state will have to stop providing the...
4:38 PM · Sep 23, 2022

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-arizona-legislature-8120658e7f965855fba3f23b950321f0

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years, a judge ruled Friday, meaning clinics across the state will have to stop providing the procedures to avoid the filing of criminal charges against doctors and other medical workers.

An injunction has long blocked enforcement of a law, on the books since before Arizona became a state, that bans nearly all abortions. The only exemption is if the woman’s life is in jeopardy.

The ruling also means people seeking abortions will have to go to another state to obtain one.

An appeal of the ruling is likely.

The decision from Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson came more than a month after she heard arguments on Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s request to lift the injunction. It had been in place since shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in the Roe v. Wade case, which held that women had a constitutional right to abortion.

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[Hekate]

1. Girls and women will die from this fanaticism

[Nevilledog]

2. I'm just hoping this is enough to wake people up

[kimbutgar]

3. Well that will turn Arizona blue come November

I don’t see the women of Arizona sitting back and being ok with having their reproductive rights away.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

4. Well, there you go...another white male

With his fucking mouth open.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. We have to end this cruelty.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

THESE are the races that will determine control of the House of Representatives:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217175231

Stick 'em up for a blue wave: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217078977

[Jenny von Westphalen]

6. Statement by Katie Hobbs, Dem. candidate for governor of Arizona

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As your governor, I will do everything in my power to protect this right — starting by using my veto pen to block any legislation that compromises the right to choose. I will do everything I can to stop oppressive bans created before women even had the right to vote to control our reproductive freedom.

[Jenny von Westphalen]

7. Planned Parenthood Arizona's lawyers are "evaluating next steps in the case"

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