Attorney Misty Marris singled out the trouble that will be faced in Arizona in defining what constitutes a threat to the mother.
Arizona now faces a 'thorny road ahead' in parsing the legal ramifications of the state Supreme Court's decision upholding a 19th-century abortion ban, according to lawyer Misty Marris.ContextOn Tuesday, by a 4-2 ruling, the Arizona state Supreme Court voted to allow an 1864 anti-abortion law, which predates Arizonan statehood, to stand.
'She continued: 'As far as what happens immediately, the governor had actually gotten ahead of this and there is an executive order that says that the attorney general is responsible for enforcing this statute, for enforcing this decision, and the attorney general has said, and I imagine we're going to hear from them today, that they are not going to move forward with enforcement.
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