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Judge rejects lawsuit to block abortion ballot measure
Source: Arizona Mirror
By: Gloria Rebecca Gomez - August 5, 2024
A bid to block the state’s abortion rights initiative launched by Arizona Right to Life was tossed out of court on Monday, with a judge ruling there’s no legal reason to prevent it from being considered by voters.
“The description accurately and fully communicated the initiative’s key provisions,” wrote Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Melissa Iyer Julian. “This Court will not order its removal from the general statewide election ballot.”
The anti-abortion organization sought to convince Julian that the Arizona Abortion Access Act’s 200-word summary shown to Arizonans who signed petition sheets to help the act qualify for the ballot was so unlawfully misleading as to put all of its signatures into question. But Julian was unconvinced, writing in her 10-page ruling that the organization failed to prove its complaints render the proposal unfit for the November election. Instead, she wrote, Arizona Right to Life’s opposition to the initiative — which centered mostly around the effects it would have on current laws — should be aired in the political arena.
“The description accurately and fully communicated the initiative’s key provisions,” wrote Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Melissa Iyer Julian. “This Court will not order its removal from the general statewide election ballot.”
The anti-abortion organization sought to convince Julian that the Arizona Abortion Access Act’s 200-word summary shown to Arizonans who signed petition sheets to help the act qualify for the ballot was so unlawfully misleading as to put all of its signatures into question. But Julian was unconvinced, writing in her 10-page ruling that the organization failed to prove its complaints render the proposal unfit for the November election. Instead, she wrote, Arizona Right to Life’s opposition to the initiative — which centered mostly around the effects it would have on current laws — should be aired in the political arena.
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