Arizona Law Criminalizing Abortions Raises Roe v. Wade Case
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An Arizona law making it a crime for doctors to perform abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy was questioned by two federal appeals court judges who said it appears to flout the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
The lower-court judge who upheld the law should be overruled because Roe v. Wade allows women to abort pregnancies before fetuses can survive outside the uterus, Janet Crepps, an attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, today told a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco.