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A federal judge Monday blocked an Arizona law recognizing the civil rights of unborn children, calling the law “unconstitutionally vague.”
The law of 2021 that obliged the state from interpreting all laws as granting civil rights to unborn children was blocked by US District Court Judge Douglas Rayes – an appointee of former President Barack Obama – because he thought the term “personality” was too vague.
“A law is unconstitutionally vague if its application is so obscure that people of ordinary intelligence cannot figure out in advance how to comply with it,” Rayes wrote. He also seemed concerned that granting the same rights to unborn babies as to those born might define abortion as manslaughter.
Many conservatives agree that abortion should be treated as murder.
Arizona’s laws “shall be interpreted and interpreted to recognize on behalf of an unborn child at any stage of development all rights, privileges and immunities available to other persons, citizens and residents of this state,” the measure states, in addition to excluding women. to have abortions because of the baby’s race,* or genetic abnormality.
The 2021 law was previously partially blocked by a U.S. court over its provision banning abortions for children with survivable genetic defects.
Rayes pointed to issues with the “personality” provision that he seemed to be inconsistent with Arizona’s abortion laws.
The Grand Canyon state has two laws that partially prohibit abortion, one from 1901 banning nearly all abortions and another signed this year prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks — both of which allow abortions if the baby is considered a baby. threat to the mother’s life.
He said the rights of abortionists would be violated under the law, as it remains unclear whether abortions legal in Arizona would in fact be illegal under the “personality language.”
For Rayes, even legal abortions can be considered a crime in “personality” language. Indeed, abortionists may be “left to guess whether their behavior could be criminalized under a maximalist application” of “personality” language.
“When it comes to the punitive and regulatory weight of the entire Arizona Code, plaintiffs shouldn’t have to guess whether their conduct is on the right or wrong side of the law,” Rayes said.
However, Arizona Attorney General Kate Sawyer said in court that the “personality law” cannot be used to sue abortionists.
Pro-abortion activists welcomed the ruling.
Center for Reproduction Rights attorney Jessica Sklarsky said: “The court made the right decision today by preventing this law from being used to create an unimaginably extreme abortion ban.”
“The catastrophic Supreme Court decision is quashed” Roe v. Wade has unleashed chaos on the ground, leaving Arizona residents struggling to figure out if they can get the abortion care they need,” she continued.
Notorious abortion case Roe v. Wade was recently undone, returning the ability to regulate abortions to state governments.
Kansas, Georgia, Missouri and Alabama also have personal protections for the unborn.
Breccan F. Thieso is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter @BreccanFthies†