A federal appellate panel has struck down an Arizona law banning abortion at 20 weeks, calling it unconstitutional “under a long line of invariant Supreme Court precedents” guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion.

The ban would also have severely restricted emergency abortion care for women with high-risk pregnancies, forcing doctors to wait until a woman's condition posed an immediate threat of death or catastrophic damage before offering her appropriate medical care.

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In its opinion, the panel rejected what they deemed an undue legislative intrusion into the doctor-patient relationship, as the New York Times reports: