¶ Abortion and Family Planning
Overview:
- Brnovich was opposed to abortion and ran for Attorney General as a “pro-life candidate.”
- Brnovich signed onto an amicus brief in support of states that wanted ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
- Brnovich signed an amicus brief in support of a Mississippi abortion law that banned abortion after 15 weeks.
- In 2021, Brnovich signed an amicus brief in support of Texas’s abortion law, which banned most abortions after 6 weeks, and did not include exceptions for rape and incest. Brnovich claimed the law saved “hundreds of lives.”
- Brnovich agreed to put on hold an Arizona law requiring doctors to inform patients that medication abortions could be reversed. Brnovich only agreed to do so after reaching out to anti-choice political groups for an expert to defend the law, but failing to find one.
- Brnovich prosecuted a woman who was accused of faking cancer in order to afford an abortion, ultimately leading to her serving more than 25 years in prison.
- Brnovich led an investigation to determine if public education funds were used to pay for an abortion.
- Brnovich urged the Supreme Court to allow the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress to release videos of meetings taken at meetings of the National Abortion Federation.
- Brnovich supported Trump’s efforts to provide so-called conscience protections for health workers for objected to participating in abortion and other procedures.
- Brnovich led a coalition of Attorneys General in filing an amicus brief in support of Kentucky Attorney General’s ability to defend its law banning most abortions with “dilation and evacuation,” the most common method used for second-trimester pregnancies.
- Brnovich approved a rule requiring abortion clinics to report what happens to the remains of aborted fetuses.
- Brnovich issued a demand letter to Camelback Family Planning, a clinic that provides abortions, for unprecedented information about the identifies of women who got abortions and donated remains for science.
- Brnovich defended an Arizona law that would allow abortion providers to deny women abortions related to genetic fetal defects, even if prior to viability. Brnovich attempted to enforce the genetic defect abortion ban law even after a federal court declared the law unconstitutional.
- Brnovich wrote to congressional leaders urging Congress to maintain the Hyde Amendment.
- Brnovich signed onto a brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
- Brnovich defended Arizona TRAP laws prohibiting anyone other than a physician from performing abortions, requiring patients to visit clinics twice over a 24-hour period for counseling, and barring the use of telemedicine in providing abortion services.