Last updated on December 19, 2025
Arizona is characterized as a restrictive state by the Guttmacher Institute.
Abortion is protected up to fetal viability. Arizona has a shield law protecting abortion providers from investigations or prosecution by other states. The state constitution protects the right to an abortion.
In the US, people who are not white and people with low incomes are more likely to experience barriers to reproductive health care access.
IN THIS STATE
As of 2023, 1.5 million women1 are of reproductive age in Arizona.
- 11.1 percent are low income (similar to the national average)
- 16.7 percent are likely eligible for Medicaid because their income is at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level (similar to the national average)
- 55.1 percent are nonwhite (higher than the national average), and Hispanic people are the largest nonwhite group (36.7 percent; higher than the national average)
- 13.0 percent are uninsured (higher than the national average)
Arizona has expanded Medicaid and thus provides coverage to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) and pregnant women up to 161 percent of FPL. Arizona has extended pregnancy-related Medicaid coverage up to 12 months postpartum. Arizona does not use state funds to cover abortion for Medicaid beneficiaries with limited exceptions. Pharmacists have prescribing authority for contraception that expands coverage to family planning services.
Accessing Abortion Care
In 2020, eight clinics provided abortions. In 2025, nine clinics provided abortions. This number does not include hospitals.
Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) are organizations—often operated by anti-abortion, nonmedical, and/or religiously affiliated groups—that aim to deter pregnant people from certain reproductive health care services, including abortion and some contraceptive methods. In 2023, there were 45 CPCs in Arizona.
Patients face the following restrictions on abortion access:
Abortion providers face the following restrictions that limit their ability to practice:
Accessing Contraceptive Care
According to Power to Decide, about 455,000 women of reproductive age in Arizona live in contraceptive deserts, putting them at increased risk of a mistimed or unintended pregnancy.
Arizona has the following protections for contraception access:
What to Watch For
In April 2024, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that an 1864 near-total abortion ban was enforceable. The attorney general moved to temporarily stay the mandate, and the Arizona Supreme Court granted that motion in May 2024, pausing enforcement of the 1864 ban until September 27, 2024. However, in May 2024, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed House Bill 2677 into law, repealing the near-total abortion ban. A 15-week abortion ban that passed in 2022 remained in effect thereafter. But after the state passed Proposition 139, a citizen-initiated state constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights up to viability in November 2024, litigation ensued, arguing that the 15-week ban violated the amended state constitution. In March 2025, an Arizona judge permanently blocked the 15-week ban.
While abortion is now protected up to viability in the Arizona constitution, the passage of Proposition 139 did not automatically invalidate other state abortion restrictions, which continue to be challenged in court under the amended state constitution. In May 2025, two doctors and the American Medical Association sued to repeal three of these restrictions: the 24-hour waiting period, the genetic abnormalities ban, and the telemedicine ban.
1 Though we use the terminology of woman/women, we recognize that not all individuals capable of pregnancy identify as women.
