Voters in Arizona and ten additional states could be voting on proposed ballot measures related to abortion in 2024. Currently, there are three certified abortion-related ballot measures in Florida, Maryland, and New York.
Arizona for Abortion Access, the campaign gathering signatures to place an initiative on the ballot to provide a state constitutional right to an abortion, said supporters gathered at least 506,892 petition signatures as of April 2. In Arizona, at least 383,923 valid signatures are required to place a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment on the ballot. The campaign has until July 3 to submit signatures.
On April 9, 2024, the Arizona Supreme Court, in a 4-2 decision, upheld a law enacted in 1864 prohibiting abortion in most circumstances except to save the life of the mother. The law ordered prosecution for “a person who provides, supplies or administers to a pregnant woman, or procures such woman to take any medicine, drugs or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless it is necessary to save her life.”
