{"id":1550593,"date":"2022-07-12T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1550593"},"modified":"2022-07-12T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T16:19:26","slug":"federal-judge-blocks-arizona-law-giving-civil-rights-to-unborn-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-blocks-arizona-law-giving-civil-rights-to-unborn-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Blocks Arizona Law Giving Civil Rights To Unborn Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-judge-blocks-arizona-law-giving-civil-rights-to-unborn-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1550593&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A federal judge blocked a personhood law in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/arizona\">Arizona<\/a> that gave civil rights to unborn children, saying it was \u201cunconstitutionally vague.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Passed in 2021, the legislation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/judge-temporarily-blocks-arizona-personhood-law\">stipulated<\/a> that laws in the state be interpreted with the understanding that unborn children be treated with the same rights as state residents and citizens. On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Rayes struck down the bill saying it was unconstitutional.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA law is unconstitutionally vague if its application is so unclear that people of ordinary intelligence cannot figure out in advance how to comply with it,\u201d Rayes said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The judge said that the due process rights of abortionists could be violated by the law since it was unclear if they could be prosecuted if they performed even legal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/abortion\">abortions<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the punitive and regulatory weight of the entire Arizona code is involved, Plaintiffs should not have to guess at whether their conduct is on the right or the wrong side of the law,\u201d Rayes <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-crime-arizona-cd5af054bc9858a07ce6e815d8b31bab\">said<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arizona\u2019s personhood law had said that state laws \u201cshall be interpreted and construed to acknowledge, on behalf of an unborn child at every stage of development, all rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens and residents of this state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brittni Thomason, a spokeswoman for Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, said that the office was considering how to move forward following the ruling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s ruling was based on an interpretation of Arizona law that our office did not agree with, and we are carefully considering our next steps,\u201d she said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/federal-judge-blocks-arizonas-personhood-abortion-law\/2022\/07\/11\/2ec1c8ac-017d-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html\">per<\/a>\u00a0the Washington Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pro-abortion groups praised the decision, with Jessica Sklarsky of the Center for Reproductive Rights claiming the law was \u201cbeing used to create an unthinkably extreme abortion ban.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s catastrophic decision overturning Roe v. Wade has unleashed chaos on the ground, leaving Arizona residents scrambling to figure out if they can get the abortion care they need,\u201d she claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arizona has a newly passed 15-week abortion ban as well as a long-standing 1901 abortion ban which could be law, though the legal ramifications of that law are still under discussion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The judge\u2019s move on Monday is the latest example of a court blocking the implementation of a state\u2019s pro-life law following the overturning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/roe-v-wade\"><em>Roe<\/em><\/a> in June, which effectively turned abortion legislation back to the states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life laws in other states, including Louisiana, Florida, and Kentucky, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/06\/30\/judge-temporarily-blocks-kentuckys-near-total-abortion-ban.html\">have<\/a> been blocked or held up by judges showing that even with <em>Roe<\/em> gone, it is likely that the battle over these laws will continue around the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kansas, Georgia, Missouri, and Alabama have similar personhood laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge blocked a personhood law in Arizona that gave civil rights to unborn children, saying it was \u201cunconstitutionally vague.\u201d Passed in 2021, the legislation stipulated that laws in the state be interpreted with the understanding that unborn children be treated with the same rights as state residents and citizens. On Monday, U.S. District &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1550661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1550661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}