After Roe Fell: U.S. Abortion Laws by State

Protected

Arizona

The Arizona pre-Roe ban has been repealed. As a result of an amendment to the Arizona Constitution that protects abortion rights, the fifteen-week ban is enjoined. Abortions after fetal viability remain prohibited, with limited exceptions.

State Legal Details

Bans in Effect

  • Gestational Ban, Viability
  • Method Ban
  • Reason Ban

Bans Enjoined

  • Gestational Ban, 15-week LMP
  • Gestational Ban, 20-week LMP
  • Medication Abortion, Telemedicine Ban
  • Reason Ban

Restrictions in Effect

  • Biased Counseling Requirement
  • Fetal Personhood
  • Mandatory Ultrasound Requirement
  • Parental Involvement, Parental Consent Requirement
  • TRAP Requirements: Facilities, Facility Requirements
  • TRAP requirements: Providers, Admitting Privilege Requirement
  • TRAP requirements: Providers, Reporting Requirement

State Protections

On November 5, 2024, voters in Arizona approved Proposition 139, a constitutional amendment to protect abortion access up to viability.1

The amendment states that “every individual has a fundamental right to abortion” and prohibits the state from restricting abortion access before viability or after viability if “in the good faith judgment of a treating health care professional, [abortion care] is necessary to protect the life or physical or mental health of the pregnant individual.2

In June 2023 the Arizona governor issued an executive order that centralizes authority over abortion-related prosecutions under the Attorney General, prohibits state agencies cooperation with out-of-state investigations and legal actions (including extradition) arising from the lawful provision of abortion in Arizona, and establishes the Advisory Council on Protecting Reproductive Freedom to make recommendations to expand access to reproductive health care in Arizona.3

Restrictions

On March 5, 2025, an Arizona superior court held that Arizona’s fifteen-week abortion ban is unconstitutional and permanently blocked its enforcement.4 Arizona also has a twenty-week abortion ban on the books, but that law was permanently enjoined in 2013.5 Abortions after fetal viability remain prohibited, with limited exceptions. 6

Arizona prohibits D&X procedures,7 and abortions sought for reasons of race, sex, or “genetic abnormality”.8 Arizona also requires pregnant people to undergo a mandatory twenty-four-hour waiting period, biased counseling, and an ultrasound9 and includes prohibitions on public funding10 and private insurance coverage.11 In addition, Arizona law requires that a parent, legal guardian,12 or judge13 consent to a minor’s abortion. Moreover, the state’s fetal personhood provision, which grants “personhood” to fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs, remains in effect following the dismissal of a federal lawsuit aimed at preventing its enforcement.14

Arizona retains targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) laws including requirements related to facilities,15 admitting privileges,16 and reporting.17 Arizona law continues to restrict the provision of surgical abortion care to licensed physicians.18 Arizona still restricts providers from using telemedicine for the provision of abortion care.19 Providers who violate Arizona’s abortion restrictions may face civil and criminal penalties.20

Historical Restrictions

In April 2024 the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the state’s pre-Roe ban is enforceable.21 However, this ban was subsequently repealed in May 2024.22 The pre-Roe ban prohibited almost all abortions with a very limited life exception. 23 Arizona repealed its law criminalizing people who self-manage their abortions in 2021.24 However, the state retains a pre-Roe ban on abortion advertising.25

Conclusion

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe, the Arizona pre-Roe ban has been repealed. In 2024, voters approved an amendment to the Arizona Constitution to protect abortion rights, and the state’s fifteen-week abortion ban is enjoined. Abortions after fetal viability remain restricted, with limited exceptions.

  1. Stacy Barchenger, Proposition 139: Arizona voters enshrine abortion access in state constitution, Arizona Republic (Nov. 5, 2024), https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/05/arizona-abortion-prop-139-election-results/75781882007/. ↩︎
  2. Az. Const. art. II, § 8.1. ↩︎
  3. A.Z. Exec. Order, No. 2023-11 (June 22, 2023), https://azgovernor.gov/sites/default/files/executive_order_2023_11.pdf. ↩︎
  4. Ariz. Rev. Stat. §§ 36-2322, 36-2326; Reuss v. Arizona, No. CV2024-034624 (Ariz. Sup. Ct. Mar. 5, 2025). ↩︎
  5. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2159; Isaacson v. Horne, 716 F.3d 1213 (9th Cir. 2013)., Stipulation of Non-Enforcement (D. Ariz. Dec. 3, 2024) (stipulating that the 15-week ban is unconstitutional and that the state will not enforce the ban until 30 days after final resolution of the litigation). ↩︎
  6. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2301.01. ↩︎
  7. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-3603.01. ↩︎
  8. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-3603.02(A).A federal court had granted a preliminary injunction against the “genetic abnormality” ban,[1] but this injunction was vacated on June 30, 2022. Isaacson v. Brnovich, No. 2:21-cv-01417 (D. Ariz. Sep. 28, 2021) (order granting partial preliminary injunction); Isaacson v. Brnovich, No. 2:21-16645 (9th Cir., Jun. 30, 2022) (vacating district court order and remanding case for further proceedings in light of Dobbs). ↩︎
  9. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2153; Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2156. ↩︎
  10. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 35-196.02. ↩︎
  11. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 20-121. ↩︎
  12. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2152(A). ↩︎
  13. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2152(B). ↩︎
  14. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 1-219; Isaacson v. Brnovich, No. 2:21-cv-01417 (D. Ariz. Apr. 15, 2025) (order dismissing case without prejudice and dissolving preliminary injunction). ↩︎
  15. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-449.02; Ariz. Rev. Stat.§ 36-449.03; Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-10-1513; Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-10-1515. ↩︎
  16. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-449.03(C)(3)(a)–(b); Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-10-1501(1); Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-10-1507(B)(2)–(3). ↩︎
  17. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-449.03(H); Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2161; Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2162; Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-10-1505(A).49.03(H); id. u00a7 36-2161; id. u00a7 36-2162; Ariz. Admin. Code u00a7 R9-10-1505(A). ↩︎
  18. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2155; Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2153(E); Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 32-2531(E). ↩︎
  19. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-3604. ↩︎
  20. See, e.g., Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-3605; Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2156(B)–(D); Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 36-2152(I)–(J); Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-3603.02156(B)-(D); id. u00a7 36-2152(I)-(J); id. u00a7 13-3603.02. ↩︎
  21. Planned Parenthood v. Mayes, No. CV-23-0005-PR (Ariz. Apr. 9, 2024). ↩︎
  22. Ariz. Laws 2024, ch. 181 (H.B. 2677) (repealing Ariz. Rev. Stat. §§ 13-3603, 13-3605 (formerly §§ 13-211, 13-213 (1956))); Att’y Gen. Kris Mayes, Arizona Abortion Laws, https://www.azag.gov/issues/reproductive-rights/laws. ↩︎
  23. Ariz. Rev. Stat. §§ 13-3603, 13-3605 (formerly §§ 13-211, 13-213 (1956)), enjoined by Nelson v. Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson, 19 Ariz. App. 142, 505 P.2d 580 (1973), rev’d Planned Parenthood v. Brnovich, No. C127867 (Az. Super. Ct. Sept. 22, 2022), appeal filed, Planned Parenthood v. Brnovich, 2 CA-CV 2022-0116 (Ariz. Ct. App. Oct. 7, 2022) (injunction granted). ↩︎
  24. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-3604, repealed by 2021 Ariz. Sess. Laws Ch. 286, § 3. ↩︎
  25. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-3605 (formerly §13-213 (1956)). ↩︎