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The legal and political landscape surrounding abortion in Arizona — and across the country — has shifted dramatically in the last year.Many wouldn't have believed a year ago that Roe v. Wade would no longer be the law of the land and that the political debate here would be over which abortion ban should be in effect — a 15-week ban or a near-total ban that was authored before
PHOENIX -- Newly sworn-in Gov. Katie Hobbs did something on her first day in office on Tuesday that hasn't been done since the last time Arizona had a Democratic governor:
Arizona's Court of Appeals in Tucson has issued its ruling on the state's abortion law, putting the 15-week ban in place, and doctors could face punishment for violating it.
The old law prohibited most abortions; the appeals court backed the state’s newer law that allows abortions at up to 15 weeks.
Abortions in Arizona are legal up to 15 weeks of pregnancy, after an appeals court ruled late Friday that the state’s Civil War-era abortion ban doesn’t overrule nearly 50 years of laws tightly regulating abortions and instead only applies to non-physicians who might try to provide abortions.