A person shall not knowingly perform or induce an abortion before that person completes an affidavit that:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-2157

  • Abortion: means the use of any means to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will cause, with reasonable likelihood, the death of the unborn child. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215

1. States that the person making the affidavit is not aborting the child because of the child’s sex or race or because of a genetic abnormality of the child and has no knowledge that the child to be aborted is being aborted because of the child’s sex or race or because of a genetic abnormality of the child.

2. Is signed by the person performing or inducing the abortion.