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'Unborn human being' will stay in description of abortion rights initiative sent to voters
Source: Arizona Mirror
By: Caitlin Sievers - August 14, 2024
The words “unborn human being” will be printed in the description of an Arizona abortion rights initiative in a pamphlet sent to all registered voters, the state Supreme Court ordered in a split decision on Wednesday, reversing an earlier ruling from the trial court.
The campaign behind the Arizona Abortion Access Act filed a lawsuit in early July challenging the use of the phrase in the summary, whose language was approved by a GOP-majority legislative committee.
The Arizona for Abortion Access campaign advocated to the Legislative Council for a change from “unborn human being” in the first sentence of the description to “fetus,” which the campaign argued was medically accurate and impartial.
State law requires the legislature to create a description of each ballot proposal that includes an analysis of laws that would be affected by the proposal’s passage. But the law expressly calls for an impartial analysis, and the abortion rights campaign claimed that the phrase “unborn human being” is partisan language that shouldn’t be used in what is meant to be a neutral description.
The campaign behind the Arizona Abortion Access Act filed a lawsuit in early July challenging the use of the phrase in the summary, whose language was approved by a GOP-majority legislative committee.
The Arizona for Abortion Access campaign advocated to the Legislative Council for a change from “unborn human being” in the first sentence of the description to “fetus,” which the campaign argued was medically accurate and impartial.
State law requires the legislature to create a description of each ballot proposal that includes an analysis of laws that would be affected by the proposal’s passage. But the law expressly calls for an impartial analysis, and the abortion rights campaign claimed that the phrase “unborn human being” is partisan language that shouldn’t be used in what is meant to be a neutral description.
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