Should Women Be Subject to an 1864 Territorial Law?
Posted by Salli Swartz February 15, 2024
Former Voting Representative France; Steering Committee - Global Women's Caucus ; 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
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.”
