{"id":28213,"date":"2024-08-15T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=28213"},"modified":"2024-08-15T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:02:50","slug":"foetuses-can-be-called-unborn-humans-for-arizona-abortion-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/08\/15\/foetuses-can-be-called-unborn-humans-for-arizona-abortion-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Foetuses can be called ‘unborn humans’ for Arizona abortion vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Judges in Arizona have allowed officials to call a foetus an “unborn human being” in public information leaflets ahead of a statewide vote on abortion in November.<\/b><\/p>\n

Pro-choice activists criticised the ruling, saying the phrase is “biased”, but the state’s top court said the wording did not break impartiality rules.<\/p>\n

America has been locked in a bitter debate over reproductive freedoms after the US Supreme Court rescinded the nationwide right to abortion two years ago.<\/p>\n

On 5 November, the issue will again be in the spotlight, when Arizona and other states vote on whether to add a woman’s right to an abortion to their own constitutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The group Arizona for Abortion Access said voters would be “subjected to biased, politically-charged words developed not by experts but by anti-abortion special interests”.<\/p>\n

It added it was “deeply disappointed” by the decision of the state supreme court, which sided with state Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n

One of those Republicans, House Speaker Ben Toma, hailed the ruling as “correct”, the Associated Press reported, and said the move was designed to aid voters’ understanding.<\/p>\n

The court – whose judges were appointed by Republicans – has promised to release a full opinion later, AP added.<\/p>\n

Women in Arizona are currently prevented from terminating a pregnancy after 15 weeks, with some exceptions, as a result of legislation brought by the Republicans in 2022.<\/p>\n

That law was passed after the US Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v Wade: a landmark ruling which rescinded the nationwide right to abortion and set in train a nationwide debate over reproductive rights.<\/p>\n

In Arizona specifically, this reached a head earlier this year when state lawmakers battled over a 160-year law that would have almost totally banned abortions, without exceptions in instances of rape and incest.<\/p>\n

The state supreme court ruled in April the legislation dating from 1864 could be enforced. The move was briefly hailed as an “enormous victory” by one anti-abortion group, before\u00a0state Democrats forced through a repeal bill with the help of two Republicans in the senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At both state and national levels, Democrats have made the abortion issue key to their campaign ahead of 5 November.<\/p>\n

That is the date of the presidential election as well as the Democratic-supported abortion initiative of the kind seen in Arizona, which was confirmed to be going ahead earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Many of the states in which these ballots are taking place are key battlegrounds that could have a bearing on the presidential result.<\/p>\n

Many Republican politicians, meanwhile, have sided with religious conservatives who want abortion banned or limited in the US.<\/p>\n

In Arizona, the abortion ballot will determine whether or not to amend the state constitution to allow a woman to end a pregnancy up to the time at which a foetus could survive outside the womb. That tends to be about 23 or 24 weeks.<\/p>\n

The move would prevent future laws being introduced to restrict abortion access – something that opponents say would go too far.<\/p>\n

The decision of Arizona’s top court to allow a foetus to be described an “unborn human being” is reminiscent of\u00a0a decision by Alabama’s own supreme court earlier this year<\/a>. This ruled that frozen embryos could be considered children.<\/p>\n

Most Americans believe abortion should be legal in at least some situations,\u00a0recent polling presented by the firm Gallup has indicated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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