Arizona can’t enforce its ban on abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation because it violates the state constitution, a trial judge said Wednesday in a brief order permanently blocking it.

Justice John R. Lopez IV in Planned Parenthood et al v Kristin Mayes/Hazelrigg (p.28) An older court decision blocked enforcing the 1864 law shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the 1973 Roe v.