Advocates say the ruling forces people to carry unwanted pregnancies and will have the greatest impact on Black, Indigenous, Latino and other people of color.
The landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case established a constitutional right to abortion.Banning nearly all abortions in Arizona, including in cases of rape and incest, is going to have dire health and societal consequences, providers and reproductive rights advocates said Friday.
The pre-statehood law is extreme and does not represent what Arizonans want, she said, and it will be particularly devastating for pregnant patients suffering from medical conditions and abnormal fetal diagnoses. “Today, the court’s decision takes Arizonans back to living under an archaic, 150-year-old law,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America said in a news release.1864 Arizona law to send abortion providers to prison may apply, county prosecutor says
Fonteno said that the ruling does not signal the end of the fight for reproductive freedom in Arizona.
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