Arizona Judge Declines to Block Abortion Rights Ballot Measure

An Arizona anti-abortion group failed to show that petitioners misled voters in their description of a measure to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution, a judge ruled Monday in a lawsuit seeking to block the petition from appearing on the November ballot.

Arizona for Abortion Access met the state’s requirements for reflecting the primary objective of its measure to voters, Judge Melissa Julian of the Arizona Superior Court, Maricopa County, wrote in her decision.

The measure, for which petitioners turned in more than 800,000 signatures in support, would establish a fundamental right to abortion until fetal viability, ...