Arizona supreme court delays enforcement of 1864 abortion ban

A separate court case on the legislation which granted an additional 45-day stay means the law cannot be enforced until 26 September. Photograph: Matt York/AP

The Arizona supreme court on Monday granted a motion to stay the enforcement of an 1864 law that bans almost all abortions, a win for reproductive rights activists in the swing state.

The state’s highest court agreed to the Arizona attorney general Kris Mayes’s request for a 90-day delay of the near-total ban, further pushing back enforcement of the 1864 legislation after a repeal of the ban was passed earlier this month.