Protecting Abortion Access

Senate Bill 1553 (2025)

Lawmakers and advocates introduced proactive legislation - a repeal bill, SB 1553.

This bill repeals or amends almost forty medically unnecessary laws that restrict or ban abortion in Arizona.

SB 1553 Sponsorship: 

• Senator Ortiz- Prime Sponsor

• Representative Abeytia- Co-Sponsor

• Representative Liguori- Co-Sponsor

SB 1553 repeals dozens of abortion bans and restrictions in Arizona. These include: 

• Fetal Personhood Interpretation Policy

• Ban on Advertising for Abortion

• 15 week Abortion Ban

• 20 week Abortion Ban

• Abortion Ban at Potential Fetal Viability

• Reason Bans

• Abortion Reporting Requirements

• “Partial Birth” Abortion Ban

• Provider Restrictions/Scope of Practice Restrictions

• Unnecessary Medical Definitions

• Biased Counseling Requirements

• 24 hour Waiting Period / Ultrasound Requirements

• Telehealth Abortion Ban

• TRAP laws/Medically Unnecessary Abortion Clinic Regulations

• Fetal Tissue Disposal Regulations

• Right to Refuse

• Additional Medically Unnecessary Regulations

What SB 1553 Does Not Do (and why): 

The current version of the bill includes every abortion restriction and ban in the state except for the following two sets of laws.

These statutes are significant barriers to accessing care in Arizona, but were not included for specific reasons. Advocates continue to develop and pursue repeals of these restrictions as well: 

Restrictions on access for minors: 

This was not included in the repeal bill because the current statute includes the judicial bypass process. If the statute were simply repealed, minors would have no path to accessing abortion care without parental involvement due to Arizona’s Parental Bill of Rights. 

Advocates are developing language to provide statutory protections that would enable minors to access abortion care in Arizona without parental consent or notification, or other barriers based on their age. 

This part is lagging due to some of the complexity involved. Advocates agreed that it didn’t make sense to rush introduction of bill language that wasn’t ready. 

Public Funding Restrictions: 

These repeals have been drafted, but have fiscal implications for state funding and are included in a separate bill.  Advocates did draft a bill with these repeals, but this has not yet been introduced.

House Bill 2097 (2022) and Senate Bill 1672

HB 2097 and it's near-mirror bill SB1672 would repeal unconstitutional, outdated, pre-Roe v. Wade provisions of Arizona law that criminalize providing abortion care, as well as advertising the provision of abortion and even contraception services. 

• The Supreme Court is poised to overturn or severely weaken Roe v. Wade, and there is a chance that if that happens, the antiquated and dangerous pre-Roe provisions in Arizona law could be enforced. 

• Over three-quarters of Arizonans believe that abortion should be legal. HB 2097 aligns Arizona law with the values of its people.