Court drops Arizona's 15-week limit on abortions [View all]
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.
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