The state is now impose a law that was passed in 1864, which criminalizes most abortion procedures and bans most abortions, according to the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday.
In Tuesday’s 4- 2 decision, the Arizona Supreme Court lot wrote,” Physicians are now on realize that all abortions, except those required to protect a person’s life, are illegal”.
According to Fox News, the legislation,  , which can be traced back to 1864 and was officially codified in 1913 after Arizona became a state, makes it a felony for anyone who “provides, supplies or administers to a pregnant woman, or procures for woman to take any medicine, drugs or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or another means whatever, with intent therefore to collect the miscarriage of like woman, unless it is necessary to keep her life”.
Fox News reported that those who do not pursue the 1913 laws may face a 2- 5 time prison sentence. According to the store, the law was not repealed, and a court in Arizona decided last year that the ban could continue if it was in line with a 2022 law that only allowed women to have abortions for the first 15 weeks of a woman’s pregnancy.
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The 2022 abortion law, according to the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday, “does not create a right to, or otherwise provide independent statutory authority for, an abortion that repeals or restates” the previous law established in 1913. The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade added that it “is predicated entirely on the existence of a federal constitutional right to an abortion that has been withdrawn.”
The court ruled that the law, which only covers abortions to save the mother’s life, is” now enforceable,” but the ruling will not go into effect for another 14 days.
Following Tuesday’s ruling, Susan B. Anthony Pro- Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser , issued a statement applauding the court’s decision. She described the court’s decision as a “major advancement” in Arizona’s “fight for life”.
” We congratulate this remarkable victory over the mothers of unborn children. More than 11, 000 babies are protected by Arizona’s pro-life law every year at all stages of pregnancy, with the exception being the mother’s life,” Dannenfelser said. ” This includes babies who have heartbeats, babies who can feel pain, and babies who can smile and suck their thumbs”.
On the other hand, President Joe Biden’s administration released a statement opposing the court’s decision. The president argued that the abortion ban was” cruel” and that” Millions of Arizonans will soon live under an even more extreme and dangerous abortion ban, which fails to protect women even when their health is in jeopardy or in tragic cases of rape or incest.”
