Abortion-rights supporters in Arizona failed to collect enough signatures by the July 7 deadline to ask voters to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution this November. What’s next: Brnovich has said he will ask a court to lift the injunction blocking his office and one county from enforcing the pre-statehood total abortion ban. The judge agreed it was likely unconstitutionally vague. Abortion rights groups renewed a challenge to it after Roe fell, saying it could be used to charge providers with assault, child abuse or other crimes for providing otherwise-legal abortion services. The same federal judge on July 12 blocked another part of that law, which grants all rights to fertilized eggs or fetuses. A federal judge blocked that part of that 2021 Arizona law last year, saying it was unconstitutionally vague, but will now have to reconsider that decision. Supreme Court allowed Arizona to enforce a ban on abortions done solely because the fetus has a genetic abnormality.
Brnovich said he would seek to remove an injunction in place since shortly after the Roe decision. Republican state Attorney General Mark Brnovich said on June 29 that the pre-statehood law could be enforced. Abortion providers across the state stopped all procedures because of concerns that the pre-Roe ban could put doctors, nurses and other providers at risk of prosecution. But that law specifically says it does not overrule the total abortion ban in place for more than 100 years. Arizona also has a pre-statehood law on the books that would ban all abortions, although it has not been enforced since Roe was decided.Įffect of Supreme Court ruling: Ducey has said the law he signed in late March takes precedence over the total ban that remains on the books. Current restrictions include bans on abortions because of gender and a 2021 law that makes it a felony for a doctor to terminate a pregnancy because the fetus has a survivable genetic abnormality. Doug Ducey is to leave office in January because of term limits.īackground: Arizona law allows abortion through about 22 weeks, but the Legislature passed a 15-week abortion ban in March mirroring the Mississippi law that was contested before the Supreme Court.
Political control: Both legislative chambers are controlled by Republicans. Recent efforts to advance a constitutional amendment through the Legislature have been unsuccessful. Many conservatives who want to overhaul how judges are selected and do away with the interpretation that the constitution’s right to privacy clause allows for abortion rights see an opportunity in pushing for a convention. What’s next: Voters in the fall will be asked if they want to hold a constitutional convention, a question that comes up every 10 years. Mike Dunleavy, who believes life begins at conception, is seeking reelection.īackground: The Alaska Supreme Court has interpreted the right to privacy in the state constitution as encompassing abortion rights.Įffect of Supreme Court ruling: The decision has not immediately affected abortion rights in Alaska, given the existing precedent in the state. Fifty-nine of the Legislature’s 60 seats are up for election this year. Political control: Republicans currently hold a majority of seats in the Legislature, but the House is controlled by a bipartisan coalition composed largely of Democrats. Proponents said the 2019 ban was deliberately strict in the hopes of sparking a court challenge to Roe. What’s next: Some Republican lawmakers have said they would like to see the state replace the 2019 ban with a slightly less stringent bill that would allow exceptions in cases of rape or incest. Marshall said the state would also move to lift other injunctions that blocked previous abortion restrictions, including a requirement for doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges. Doctors who violate the law could face up to 99 years in prison. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said it is now a felony to provide an abortion in Alabama beyond the one exception allowed in the 2019 law, which is for the sake of the mother’s health.
District Judge Myron Thompson hours later granted Alabama’s request to lift an injunction and allow the state to enforce the 2019 abortion ban. All three clinics stopped providing abortions that morning under fear of prosecution under the 1951 state law. A 2019 state abortion ban took effect making it a felony to perform an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, with no exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest. Effect of Supreme Court ruling: Abortions became almost entirely illegal in Alabama on June 24.
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