Arizona Ballot Summary With ‘Unborn Human’ Upheld by Court (1)

The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Republican-crafted voter pamphlet summary language using the phrase “unborn human being” in a description of an abortion rights ballot measure.

The decision from the state’s conservative top court is a setback for Arizona for Abortion Access, which had its abortion rights petition certified Aug. 12 for the ballot by Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D). The amendment would allow abortion until fetal viability or roughly 24 weeks into pregnancy, and afterward if a health-care professional uses “good faith judgment” to determine the procedure is necessary to “protect the life or physical or mental ...