Arizona Abortion Providers Move to Block State Limits on Access

Arizona laws prohibiting the mailing of abortion-inducing drugs and restricting access to the procedure violate a newly approved state constitutional amendment, a group of doctors argued in a lawsuit filed Thursday.

The Arizona Medical Association and a pair of OB-GYNs are asking the Arizona Superior Court for Maricopa County to enjoin Arizona state authorities from enforcing statutes the doctors claim violate an Arizona constitutional amendment. That amendment protects a “fundamental right to abortion” in the state until fetal viability, or roughly 24 weeks of pregnancy, and after in situations where it’s necessary to “protect the life or physical or mental ...