Arizona Abortion Providers Sue to Stop State’s Reason Ban (1)

Two doctors sued Arizona Tuesday in federal district court to invalidate a new law that allegedly will “wreak havoc on reproductive healthcare throughout the state.”

One provision of the law unconstitutionally prohibits doctors from performing abortions when they know a woman wants one because a fetus has a genetic abnormality, Paul Isaacson and Eric Reuss say in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.

Another part of the law, known as the “personhood provision,” requires courts and officials to interpret and construe all Arizona laws in a way that gives “all fertilized eggs, embryos, ...