Arizona Abortion Doctors Ask Court to Find 15-Week Ban Invalid

Arizona’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation violates the state constitution, which voters recently amended to establish and protect a fundamental right to end a previability pregnancy, a complaint filed Tuesday in state court says.

Planned Parenthood Arizona Inc. and two physicians asked the Arizona Superior Court for Maricopa County to declare the 15-week ban unconstitutional. The ban, which has limited exceptions, took effect in September 2022, after the US Supreme Court declared the previous June that the federal constitution doesn’t protect a right to abortion. The law threatened to impose criminal, civil, and licensing penalties on physicians who ...