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February 15, 2024

Should Women Be Subject to an 1864 Territorial Law?

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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 
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...

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