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State Chapters => Arizona => Topic started by: mystery-ak on July 13, 2022, 02:52:09 pm
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Federal Judge Blocks Arizona Law Giving Civil Rights To Unborn Children
Martin Walsh July 12, 2022
A federal judge has blocked a personhood law in Arizona that gave civil rights to unborn children.
U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Rayes, an Obama appointee, struck down the law, saying it was “unconstitutionally vague.”
The legislation, which was passed in 2021, specified that laws in Arizona needed to be interpreted with the understanding that unborn children be treated with the same rights as state residents and citizens.
However, Rayes struck down the law on Monday and claimed that people with “ordinary intelligence” may not be able to understand it.
“A 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,” Rayes said.
As many would agree, people of ordinary intelligence do understand the law — an unborn human is still a human being.
But Rayes apparently believed otherwise.
“When 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,” Rayes added.
Under the “personhood” law, it remains unclear if even a legal abortion would be considered a crime, Rayes wrote.
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https://conservativebrief.com/federal-11-64457/
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Does anyone have a link to the actual opinion? I have followed multiple newstory links on this story and cannot find the actual opinion/order itself.