Arizona Supreme Court rules state must adhere to century-old law banning nearly all abortions

Supreme Court ruled the state must adhere to a 160-year-old law barring all abortions except in cases when "it is necessary to save" a pregnant person's life – a significant ruling that will make a Civil War-era

"Today's decision to reimpose a law from a time when Arizona wasn't a state, the Civil War was raging, and women couldn't even vote will go down in history as a stain on our state," she said.Arizona's former attorney general then moved to make the state's near-total abortion ban enforceable again, but was opposed by Planned Parenthood Arizona, sparking yearslong legal challenges that led to Tuesday's ruling.

"Somebody took care of me. Somebody gave me a procedure so that I wouldn't have to experience another miscarriage – the pain, the mess, the discomfort. And now we're talking about whether or not we should put that doctor in jail." Arizona's Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs also blasted the ruling, telling residents in an online video statement "the fight for our reproductive freedoms is far from over."

Then-Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed the law less than three months before the country's highest court overturned Roe v. Wade. The 2022 law made an exception for medical emergencies and required physicians to file a report with the Arizona Department of Health Services if an abortion is performed after 15 weeks, but did not provide exceptions for cases of rape and incest.

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