Note, A Woman’s Life, a Woman’s Health: Equalizing Medicaid Abortion Funding in Simat Corp. v. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

Authors

Sara Gordon, University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2003

Abstract

This casenote discusses the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision in Simat Corp. v. Arizona Health Care Cost Container System. In a decision deviating from those of the United States Supreme Court, the Arizona Supreme Court declared the Arizona statute and accompanying Arizona Heath Care Cost Containment System provisions unconstitutional because they did not survive strict scrutiny analysis under the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the Arizona Constitution. Where the state of Arizona has undertaken to fund abortions for indigent women whose lives are directly threatened by pregnancy, it cannot refuse to pay for abortions for similarly indigent women whose health, but not life, is threatened.

Publication Citation

45 Ariz. L. Rev. 1127 (2003).

Recommended Citation

Gordon, Sara, "Note, A Woman’s Life, a Woman’s Health: Equalizing Medicaid Abortion Funding in Simat Corp. v. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System" (2003). Scholarly Works. 421.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/421