Arizona Court of Appeals upheld new abortion regulations which require
any woman seeking an abortion to meet face-to-face with the licensed
physician performing the abortion at least 24 hours prior to the
abortion.
The law also requires that parental consent forms be notarized
in order for a minor to get an abortion. Health care providers,
including doctors, nurses and pharmacists, may refuse to participate in
abortions, provide contraceptives, or give out the “morning
after pill” if they have moral or religious objections. The law also
prohibits anyone who is not a licensed physician from performing an
abortion.
The
law includes chemical abortions, such as the abortion regimen RU-486,
which means that nurse practitioners will no longer be permitted to
perform any type of abortion.
“Arizona is one of many states in recent
months to pass common sense regulations on abortion,” says Mathew
Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty
University School of Law. “This history of
abortion on demand will one day be remembered as the worst chapter in
American history. The Supreme Court’s abortion decision in 1973 betrayed
the Constitution by distorting it into something unrecognizable.”
