Should Women Be Subject to a 1864 Territorial Law?

Posted by Salli Swartz
February 15, 2024

Voting Representative France; Global Women's Caucus Steering Committee; Leader, GWC Reproductive Rights Action Team; Former Co Chair, Global Womens Caucus; former Counsel, Democrats Abroad France, former Vice Chair, Democrats Abroad France

Alliance Defending Freedom Seeks to Persuade Arizona Supreme Court That Not All Life-Saving Abortions Are Emergencies

2/12/2024 by SHOSHANNA EHRLICH

On Dec. 13, six Republican-appointed justices of the Arizona Supreme Court heard arguments in Planned Parenthood Arizona v. Mayes/Hazelrigg over whether an 1864 law banning abortion should take precedence over the state’s 2022 15-week gestational ban. Normally made up of seven sitting justices, the court was one judge short, as Justice Bill Montgomery recused himself after a now-deleted 2017 Facebook post came to light in which he declared that Planned Parenthood “is responsible for the greatest genocide known to man.”

And now … we wait. A decision could come any day now. Read the full article...

Should Women Be Subject to an 1864 Territorial Law?

Alliance Defending Freedom Seeks to Persuade Arizona Supreme Court That Not All Life-Saving Abortions Are Emergencies

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