For Star subscribers: Attorney General Kris Mayes, who now has complete control over the decision, won't enforce any of the Arizona laws that make performing certain abortions a crime.
But Attorney General Kris Mayes made it clear in an extensive interview with Capitol Media Services that under her watch, no doctor or medical professional will be prosecuted in Arizona for performing an abortion.
"You're talking about a hypothetical that almost never happens,'' she said."And when it happens it is almost always a medical emergency,'' for which she said terminating the pregnancy is allowed under the disputed law permitting abortions through the 15th week of pregnancy. While that challenge is pending, Mayes has declined to defend the law. The federal judge has since allowed Republican legislative leaders to step in in her place to mount a defense.
Says order is legal, has precedentMayes says the governor's order is legal, citing a statute that gives the attorney general"supervisory powers'' over county attorneys. She sidestepped the question of whether that allows her, at the direction of the governor, to wrest control from county attorneys the prosecution of any law based on a claim of ensuring equal enforcement among all counties.
A judge had declared a mistrial in the first bid to prosecute Adamson, an action Mitchell said was caused by public statements made by Harris. What's different here, Mitchell said, is that Hobbs, by executive order, removed not just one case but an entire category of potential offenses — there is currently no one accused of violating any abortion laws — from the purview of locally elected county attorneys. Mitchell said that's why she and other county attorneys are looking at possible litigation.
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