The varying laws across the country, at times, lack clarity, advocates say.

Arizona is at the epicenter of an abortion dilemma that has seen states roll out a patchwork of laws in the two years since Roe was overturned. On May 2, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a bill to repeal an 1864 Civil War-era abortion ban that was resurrected by the state Supreme Court in April. “In those 160 years, the Arizona legislature never took the step of repealing this statute,” Jennifer Piatt, an Arizona State University research scholar and the co-director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law said. In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade after hearing the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case. The decision gave states the power to ban abortions or implement more restrictions. www.wmar2news.com/Politics/pa...