Abortion rights advocates condemn Arizona GOP for undermining 2024 voter mandate

Days away from a legislative deadline by which bills must be heard or risk dying without ever being considered, Democratic lawmakers in Arizona are urging Republicans to respect the voter mandate issued in 2024 and support proposals that protect abortion access.

Those pleas are likely to continue being ignored.

For decades, the GOP-controlled state legislature has worked to restrict the ability of women to obtain the procedure. And that hasn’t changed in the two years since Arizona voters agreed to enshrine abortion in the state constitution as a fundamental right. In 2024, an overwhelming 62% of voters approved Proposition 139, which explicitly forbids the state from enacting any law that interferes with abortion access, with very limited exceptions for laws meant to preserve a woman’s health.

But Republican lawmakers have remained undeterred in their efforts to hinder access to the procedure, proposing legislation this year that would bestow personhood on fetuses by granting “preborn children” a right to child support — effectively banning all abortions — and potentially criminalizing both doctors and women by making the killing of an “unborn child” punishable with death or life imprisonment. Still other GOP bills make it impossible for doctors to talk about abortion with their patients or seek to drastically narrow access to abortion drugs.




https://azmirror.com/2026/02/16/abortion-rights-advocates-condemn-arizona-gop-for-undermining-2024-voter-mandate/