Supreme Court declines to review lower court decision on Arizona law which differs from NRLC’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

  By Dave Andrusko Without comment, the Supreme Court today declined to review a lower court decision that a 2012 Arizona law that bans abortion after 18 weeks fetal age is unconstitutional. Arizona’s ‘Mother’s Health and Safety Act’ is different than the NRLC model legislation that has passed in ten states. NRLC’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child …

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Advocates for children with disabilities file brief in support of Arizona’s ban on aborting pain-capable unborn children

By Dave Andrusko Last week NRLC Director of State Legislation Mary Spaulding Balch, JD, wrote an in-depth, informative post about a “friend of the court” brief filed on behalf of the attorneys general of sixteen states. That brief argued that the United States Supreme Court should agree to decide whether it is constitutional to protect …

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