LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin released the following statement after leading a 17-state amicus brief filed in the Arizona Supreme Court in support of the state’s elective-abortion ban:
“One year after the Supreme Court of the United States decided that States may regulate or ban abortion, Planned Parenthood is still asking courts to thwart the law and block democratically enacted abortion laws and regulations. Arizona has a 150-year-old law that bans elective abortions. It also has a law preventing abortions before 15 weeks. Though both laws prohibit abortions, Planned Parenthood somehow convinced a state court that the 15-week ban authorized physicians to perform certain abortions.
“I am proud to lead a 17-state coalition asking the Arizona Supreme Court to stop Planned Parenthood’s attempt to short-circuit the democratic process, reverse the appeals court and allow the people and their elected representatives to regulate abortion as they see fit.”
To read the amicus brief, click here.
Original source can be found here.
