Court drops Arizona's 15-week limit on abortions

[Ptah]

Source: Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)

PHOENIX — It's now official: There are no time limits in Arizona beyond which an abortion can be performed.

In a brief order Wednesday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Frank Moskowitz granted the motion by abortion providers to declare the state's current 15-week limit to be unconstitutional. The judge "permanently and forever'' blocked state officials from enforcing the law.

Wednesday's order, in some ways, was not a surprise.

It follows the decision of Arizona voters last November to approve Proposition 139. That measure enshrined a "fundamental right'' to terminate a pregnancy into the Arizona Constitution.

There also was no one defending the law.

Read more: https://tucson.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_7b008c3c-f9da-11ef-a8e1-2b42dd889442.html

[Old Crank]

1. Good.

[StarryNite]

2. Thank goodness!

[Timeflyer]

3. You mean AZ will respect the will of the voters? Florida is freaking out right now, because that is definitely not

MAGA business as usual.

[malthaussen]

4. Shouldn't that be "there are no time limits beyond which an abortion can't be performed?"

The time limits surely restricted abortions, they didn't permit them.

-- Mal

[4catsmom]

5. gotta fight for every scrap

good on you Arizona

[Grins]

6. Despite the judge and the ballot box - they won't give up!

They are ideologically driven fanatics, and will never stop trying to strangle the most personal of rights.

[Ptah]

7. Every vote counts!