Critics of the Arizona Supreme Court's abortion ruling seem confused about what judges are supposed to do

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The issue before the court in Planned Parenthood v. Mayes was whether subsequent legislation -- in particular, a 2022 law prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks of gestation -- had overridden the 160-year-old ban.
45% : She alluded to a ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to explicitly protect abortion rights: "Ultimately, Arizona voters will make the decision on the ballot come November.
44% : The Times concedes that "many legal analysts, both liberal and conservative, said there appeared to be a solid legal foundation for Tuesday's ruling," which was "an attempt to apply the State Legislature's own recent decisions on the abortion issue."Because S.B. 1164 says a physician may not perform an abortion when "the probable gestational age" of the fetus is "greater than fifteen weeks," Planned Parenthood argued, it implicitly allowed abortions prior to that cutoff.
41% : Contrary to what Democrats like Biden and Republicans like Lake imply, however, the Arizona Supreme Court did not pass judgment on the wisdom or justice of the stricter law, its correspondence with public opinion in Arizona, or even its validity under the state constitution.
41% : "Like the misplaced, result-oriented criticism of the ruling, the story focuses on its policy and political implications instead of its legal reasoning, which Chen and Wines do not discuss, although they acknowledge that it seems "solid."
40% : "Although all of the justices were appointed by Republican governors, the Times portrays the court's decision as a product of political manipulation.

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