Planned Parenthood responds to effort to re-impose 1864 Arizona law, asks court to keep abortions legal

For subscribers: The court should harmonize the state's various abortion laws, attorneys for Planned Parenthood argued, which would require keeping abortion legal.

Wednesday that a state law from 1864 criminalizing abortion providers was never repealed.

After the Supreme Court's ruling, most abortion clinics in Arizona halted their services in because of the 1864 law and one passed last year that grants citizen status to fetuses; the latter provision was blocked this month by a federal judge. Together, the laws prove that the Legislature"recognizes and regulates abortion as a lawful medical procedure in our state," the filing states.

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