Appeals court reinstates injunction blocking abortion ban
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Court of Appeals on Friday blocked a trial court's decision that allowed immediate enforcement of a pre-statehood law that criminalizes nearly all abortions.
The ruling means that abortions can again take place in Arizona, at least for now, unless the state Supreme Court steps in.
The three-judge panel agreed with Planned Parenthood that the judge should not have lifted the decades-old order blocking its enforcement.
The brief order written by Presiding Judge Peter J. Eckerstrom said Planned Parenthood and its Arizona affiliate had shown they are likely to prevail on an appeal of a decision by the judge in Tucson to allow enforcement of the old law. They said the judge should have considered a host of laws restricting abortions passed since the original injunction was put in place following the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade that said women have a constitutional right to an abortion.
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