The Arizona Supreme Court delayed the reinforcement of an 1864 near-total abortion ban after Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) signed a repeal of the ban earlier this month.
The ruling allows Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, to appeal the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“I continue to believe this case was wrongly decided, and there are issues that merit additional judicial review,” Mayes said in a statement. “I will do everything I can to ensure that doctors can provide medical care for their patients according to their best judgment, not the beliefs of the men elected to the territorial legislature 160 years ago.”
Mayes’s office had asked for the delay in order to figure out its next course of action with the appeal. The attorney general said the 90-day stay will allow her office to “consider the best legal course of action to take from here,…
