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PHOENIX — An attorney with the Arizona attorney general's office told a judge Friday that a 2021 state “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children can't be used to bring criminal charges against abortion providers.
That decision came before the U.S. Supreme Court's June 24 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that said women have a right to seek an abortion. Attorney Jessica Leah Sklarsky of the Center for Reproductive Rights urged Rayes to block the personhood law, arguing it is unconstitutionally vague on several fronts. One is because it says unborn children should be “acknowledged" to have all rights, and another is because it is unclear how it can be reconciled with criminal laws.
But Sawyer said the law does not affect the definitions of a person in criminal statutes, and urged Rayes to reject the abortion providers' request that he block the personhood law. “So you're saying," Rayes said,"the way for defendants to address their fear that because its anyone's guess they might be prosecuted, they can eliminate that," by hiring a lawyer and filing a lawsuit.He also will have to reexamine another part of that law that he did agree to block last year.
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