The conservative-dominated US Supreme Courtroom overturned the nationwide proper to abortions in June 2022, with many Republican-led states shortly shifting to limit or outright ban the process.
Earlier this 12 months, the Arizona state supreme court docket upheld a complete abortion ban relationship again to 1864, which prohibited abortion at any stage of being pregnant except it was essential to save lots of the mom’s life.
The ruling garnered widespread criticism and was repealed a month later by the Arizona state legislature, after a number of Republicans broke with their occasion, which is within the majority, to affix Democrats.
Arizona’s present 15-week ban permits exceptions to save lots of the mom’s life, however doesn’t carve out exceptions for pregnancies from rape or incest.
A number of different states have abortion entry poll measures within the November election, together with Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, New York and South Dakota, with a number of others nonetheless pending.
Along with Arizona, 21 different states have set stricter requirements for abortion for the reason that fall of Roe v Wade, starting from full bans to earlier gestational limits.
