Health Care Providers File Lawsuit to Expand Abortion Access in Arizona
Lawsuit argues that several burdensome abortion restrictions, including a 24-hour waiting period, violate new state constitutional amendment.
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Lawsuit argues that several burdensome abortion restrictions, including a 24-hour waiting period, violate new state constitutional amendment.
The ACLU launched the Seven States Safety Campaign today, filing coordinated public records requests to uncover police misconduct in Phoenix, Arizona and six other states where the U.S. Department of Justice found police engaged in unconstitutional and racially discriminatory policing.
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge permanently blocked the state’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy because it denies Arizonans’ access to abortion care in violation of the state’s 2024 constitutional amendment protecting the fundamental right to abortion.
After the Laken Riley Act (S.5) was signed on January 29, eleven Arizona immigrants' rights groups publicly condemned Senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego for supporting it.
López brings 20 years of immigrants’ rights, reproductive justice, criminal legal reform experience to the organization amid forthcoming state and nationwide civil rights attacks.
The “Letters to America” campaign comes as ACLUs of Arizona, New Mexico, San Diego & Imperial Counties, Texas prepare for anti-immigrant threats under incoming Trump administration.