CV NEWS FEED// The organization “Arizona for Abortion Access” has sued to remove the phrase “unborn human person” from voter pamphlets.
According to the Associated Press, the organization filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court after the 2024 General Election Publicity Pamphlet used the phrase “unborn human person” in describing a pro-abortion constitutional amendment, arguing that the phrase is “politically charged” as opposed to the “neutral, medical term” of “fetus.”
Jill Norgaard, a member of Arizona Right to Life, thought that Arizona for Abortion Access sued “to desensitize people from the actual initiative, which is abortion up until birth,” according to American Family News.
Arizona’s Right to Life clarified some of the hidden aspects of the Arizona Abortion Access Amendment: the amendment would allow partial-birth and full-term abortions, allow minors to have abortions without parental consent, and eliminate nearly all of Arizona’s pro-life legislation.
Norgaard further explained that the amendment would enshrine abortion as a constitutional right. “This initiative goes too far… making [abortion] a fundamental right that is enshrined in our state constitution will thereby make it eligible for taxpayer funding.”
It would allow any health professional to perform abortions, and a health professional “could be anyone who works in an office,” Noorgaard added. “It could be a dentist, an optometrist – it is extremely vague.”
