Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Article 2 titled the Declaration of Rights and is the state's equivalent of the Bill of Rights. At the time the Arizona Constitution was adopted, the United States Supreme Court had not yet ruled that the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution was applicable to or binding upon the states. Article 3 declares the state government shall ...
If approved, the ballot measure would add the following text to Article 2, Section 8.1, to the Arizona Constitution: [11] 8.1. Fundamental right to abortion; definitions A. Every individual has a fundamental right to abortion, and the state shall not enact, adopt, or enforce any law, regulation, policy, or practice that does any of the ...
The Guarantee Clause of Article 4 of the Constitution states that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." These two provisions indicate states did not surrender their wide latitude to adopt a constitution, the fundamental documents of state law , when the U.S. Constitution was adopted.
Arizona voters on Tuesday approved an amendment enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution, NBC News projects. The ballot measure, Proposition 139, will create a “fundamental right ...
In May, the Arizona Senate voted to repeal the state’s 160-year-old near-total abortion ban, after the state Supreme Court revived the law and thrust reproductive rights into the political ...
The 19th-century law had been blocked in Arizona since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. ... abortion rights in the state constitution have expressed confidence that they’ve ...
Abortion in Arizona is legal up the point of fetal viability as a result of Arizona Proposition 139 being put into the Arizona state constitution. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As a territory, Arizona banned abortion in 1864, and although the law became unenforceable after the 1973 Roe v.
Arizona voters will decide if the right to an abortion should be part of the state’s constitution in November after organizers successfully gathered enough signatures for the initiative to end ...