Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, a Republican, just signed his second abortion ban in two years into law – modeled on the Mississippi law banning abortion at 15 weeks, which is at the center of the Supreme Court's leaked draft ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Abortion advocates and providers like us are in full agreement with those waging a relentless campaign to eliminate abortion access: the Dobbs case is expected to gut the remaining constitutional protections for the right to abortion, which will open the floodgates of state laws to outlaw abortion.
Not content to wait for the Supreme Court, extremist politicians are pushing abortion bans imposed at arbitrary time limits with no basis in science, evidence, or medical practice; from 6-week bans modeled after Texas' SB8, to15-week bans like Arizona's.
