The Arizona Supreme Court has rejected a request by Planned Parenthood to accelerate the repeal of a near-total abortion ban while granting the state attorney general’s request to pause enforcement of the ban for an additional 90 days so she can decide on further legal action.
In a May 13 order, the Arizona Supreme Court rejected Planned Parenthood’s request for the high court to immediately halt its April 10 judgment that affirmed Arizona’s 160-year-old pro-life law, which made it a crime to provide an abortion unless the mother’s life is in danger.
However, in the same May 13 order, the high court sided with a request by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes to pause enforcement of the abortion ban for another 90 days to allow her to potentially petition the U.S. Supreme Court to undo the pro-life law….
