In the wake of the enactment of Proposition 139, Arizona’s atorney general says she will not defend the legality of abortion restrictions on the books that are being challenged.
Kris Mayes says her office has reviewed three laws being challenged by the Center for Reproductive Rights and others. Some of the restrictions include a 24-hour waiting period and a prohibition on prescribing abortion inducing drugs over telemedicine.
Mayes says she believes those rules run afoul of the new law approved by voters last year.
"We have determined that the three laws that the plaintiffs are challenging here are unconstitutional and cannot withstand tests that the voters stood up when they amended the constitution to protect abortion rights," Mayes said.
Arizona’s Speaker House Steve Montenegro said he will seek to defend the old laws.
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