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Abortion in Arizona is legal up to the point of fetal viability as a result of Arizona Proposition 139 being put into the Arizona state constitution. [1] [2] It is the southernmost continental state where abortion is broadly protected. [3] As a territory, Arizona banned abortion in 1864, and although the law became unenforceable after the 1973 ...
The Arizona law in 1864 made abortion before the detection of fetal movement a felony, punishable by two to five years in prison for anyone who performed an abortion or helped a woman obtain one ...
Arizona's first ban on abortion was passed in 1864. [3] It read: [E]very person who shall administer, or cause to be administered or taken, any medicinal substances, or shall use or cause to be used any instruments whatever, with the intention to procure the miscarriage of any woman then being with child, and shall be thereof duly convicted, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial ...
Legislators look likely to repeal a near-total abortion ban enacted by a deeply unrepresentative territorial legislature.
Arizona's top court on Tuesday revived a ban on nearly all abortions under a law from 1864, a half century before statehood and women's suffrage, further restricting reproductive rights in a state ...
William Howell wrote the Arizona law banning abortions in 1864. On Tuesday, 160 years later, Arizona's Supreme Court reinstated the law. William Howell wrote Arizona's 1864 abortion ban.
While Wisconsin also has a mid-1800s abortion law, the liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is unlikely to reinstate a ban on abortion. Arizona's 1864 abortion ban was upheld. What's ...
On April 9, 2024, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled in Planned Parenthood of Arizona v. Mayes that the 1864 law could be enforced, to take effect 14 days later, but with no retroactive enforcement. [5] As a result, abortion in Arizona temporarily became de jure illegal, except for when it is "necessary to save" the life of the pregnant individual.