Federal judge blocks Arizona's 'personhood' abortion law

[Omaha Steve]

Source: ABC News-AP

ByBob Christie

PHOENIX -- A federal judge in Phoenix on Monday blocked a 2021 state “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children and that abortion rights groups said put providers at risk of prosecution for a variety of crimes.

U.S. District Judge Douglas Rayes said in his written ruling that the groups that sued to block the law are right — it is “anyone's guess,” as the state acknowledged, what criminal laws abortion providers may be breaking if they perform otherwise-legal abortions.

“And that is the problem,” Rayes wrote. “When the punitive and regulatory weight of the entire Arizona code is involved, Plaintiffs should not have to guess at whether their conduct is on the right or the wrong side of the law.”

Rayes agreed with the challengers that the law appears to be unconstitutionally vague.



Thousands of protesters march around the Arizona Capitol after the Supreme Court decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision Friday, June 24, 2022, in Phoenix. The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abo...Show more
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[Walleye]

1. Religious fanatics don't often write coherent laws

[Farmer-Rick]

2. They are NOT giving the fetus or zygote the SAME rights as a person

They are giving the fetus SPECIAL Rights.

If one person will die if another person doesn't donate them one of their kidneys, a piece of their liver, a hunk of bone marrow or even some of their blood, the law does Not force the donor to give up their body part. You can't even buy a body part according to law in the US.

But when a zygote or fetus needs to use a person's womb, we force that person to allow it, without consent. That zygote gets to use and abuse that other person's body however it needs, without the consent of the other person. That is a very special privilege no one else has.

That is a Special right. That is a right no other person in the US has under the law, except for fetuses and zygotes now

[cstanleytech]

3. The Constitution is crystal clear that you have to be born to be recognized as a person.

That is why SCOTUS majority are wrong over using their political parties opinion for throwing out Roe.