The One News Now website reports that Arizona's ban on abortions -- starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy -- will take effect this week as scheduled, after a federal judge ruled today (July 30, 2012) that the new law is constitutional.
U.S. District Judge James Teilborg said the statute may prompt a few pregnant women who are considering abortion to make the decision earlier.
But he said the new law is constitutional because it doesn't prohibit any women from making the decision to end their pregnancies.
The judge also wrote that the state provided "substantial and well-documented" evidence that an unborn child has the capacity to feel pain during an abortion by at least 20 weeks.
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