{"id":82660,"date":"2015-12-15T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T20:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=82660"},"modified":"2015-12-16T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:59:24","slug":"breaking-arizona-court-upholds-ban-on-gender-and-race-based-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/breaking-arizona-court-upholds-ban-on-gender-and-race-based-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Court upholds Arizona&#8217;s ban on gender and race-based abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The\u00a0NAACP and the National Asian-Pacific American Women\u2019s Forum have no standing to bring a lawsuit against Arizona&#8217;s 2012 law banning abortions based on gender or race, a\u00a09th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel announced today.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Only those &#8220;who are personally denied equal treatment&#8221; may bring suit against the law, stated the panel of three judges &#8211; and the plaintiffs in this case acknowledged, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/azcapitoltimes.com\/news\/2015\/12\/15\/appeals-court-thwarts-challenge-to-abortion-race-and-gender-law\/\">Arizona Capitol Times<\/a>, that &#8220;no woman had been denied an abortion because of the statute&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What that left, the appellate judges said, was simply the claim that black and Asian women had been the \u201ctargets of discriminatory intent.\u201d And that, they said, is insufficient to provide them a right to sue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Today\u2019s ruling is a victory for House Majority Leader Steve Montenegro, R-Litchfield Park, who shepherded the measure through the Legislature. So far, though, there is no evidence that any woman has been denied the ability to terminate her pregnancy based on the law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The panel of judges also noted that an abortionist\u00a0prosecuted under that law &#8211; which makes it a felony to knowingly perform an abortion for gender or race &#8211; &#8220;would have the standing to challenge&#8221; the law as would any\u00a0woman &#8220;who was refused an abortion&#8221; for these reasons.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the law stands as written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0NAACP and the National Asian-Pacific American Women\u2019s Forum have no standing to bring a lawsuit against Arizona&#8217;s 2012 law banning abortions based on gender or race, a\u00a09th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel announced today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":63666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[672,6676,318,1014,4229,6675,989,6677],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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