The Supreme Court is refusing to permit Arizona to enforce stringent restrictions on drug-induced abortions while a challenge to those rules plays out in lower courts, as reported today by The Associated Press.
The justices on Monday left in place a lower court ruling that blocked regulations that control where and how women can take medications that cause abortions. The rules also would prohibit use of the drugs after the seventh week of pregnancy instead of the ninth.
Stephanie Grisham, spokeswoman for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, said it would have been extremely rare for the high court to grant the state’s request to enforce the restrictions.
“We’re disappointed, of course, but at this point there is nothing more that we can do,” Grisham said.
