Copper Courier: Andy Biggs Scrubs His Website of Extremist Anti-Abortion Record

New reporting by the Copper Courier has uncovered Andy Biggs’ latest attempt to hide his extremist record: he scrubbed off a section titled “Defending Life” from his congressional campaign website, and his gubernatorial website makes no mention of his position on abortion at all. 

The record he's trying to hide is clear. Biggs has repeatedly pushed for a nationwide abortion ban with no exceptions for rape and incest, threatening access to IVF and certain cancer treatments for women. He said that banning abortion is his “number one issue,” calling it “barbaric,” “evil,” a “heinous genocide,” and has consistently celebrated court decisions restricting reproductive rights.

More recently, Biggs refused to say whether he’d repeal Prop 139, even as he sponsors a national abortion ban with zero exceptions that would override the protections Arizona voters enshrined in Prop 139. 

Read more about Biggs’ record against reproductive freedoms:

The Copper Courier: Andy Biggs scrubbed abortion from his site, so we checked his record Robert Gundran August 24, 2026

• US Rep. Andy Biggs has held office in Arizona since 2003, working as a state representative and state senator before being elected to Congress in 2016. In his time representing the people of Arizona, the 67-year-old Republican has built a record that demonstrates his values—and offers voters an indication of how he’d rule as governor, if he’s elected on Nov. 3.
  

• When it comes to reproductive rights, Biggs has spent more than two decades backing restrictions on abortion and reproductive healthcare, from parental consent requirements and insurance limits in the Arizona Legislature to federal ultrasound mandates and repeated efforts to defund Planned Parenthood in Congress. 
  

• Arizona voters protected a constitutional right to abortion in 2024 through Prop 139, limiting how far a governor can go. But Biggs’ record offers a guide to what he could support if elected: laws that regulate providers, add procedural barriers, restrict coverage and funding, and test the boundaries of the state’s new constitutional protections.
  

• Biggs’ record on reproductive rights
  

• While working in the Arizona House from 2003-2011, the Arizona Senate from 2011-2017, and as a Congressman representing Arizona in the US House of Representatives from 2017-present, Biggs established a consistent record of prioritizing anti-abortion ideologies.
  

• He backed multiple measures to delay patients from getting abortion care, including co-sponsoring the Ultrasound Informed Consent Act, which would require providers nationwide to perform an ultrasound, make cardiac sounds audible, and describe an embryo’s dimensions before a patient could consent to an abortion. If a provider didn’t follow the protocol, they could face civil penalties.
  

• Biggs has supported redefining the term “person” to include the moment an egg is fertilized, along with the zygote and blastocyst stages prior to implantation. That change would come through the Life at Conception Act, which would give all stages of pregnancy equal protection under the 14th Amendment and could result in a national abortion ban.
  

• “What we have seen with Andy Biggs in Congress is that in every opportunity he has had to sponsor legislation that would put the entire country under an abortion ban, or vote on legislation that would make it harder for Arizonans and other folks in this country to access reproductive healthcare, he has always fallen in line,” said Athena Salman, Arizona director for the Reproductive Freedom For All organization. “He is an ideologue and is not someone who we have any expectations is willing or able to respect the will of the voters.”
  

• Biggs also voted for a law requiring clinicians to tell patients that medication abortion could be “reversed,” a dangerous and unproven claim. He supported making abortion accessible to only wealthier patients by limiting insurance coverage for the procedure. Similarly, he repeatedly supported defunding Planned Parenthood, which offers substantial reproductive healthcare services to low-income women, from annual check-ups to cancer screenings to pregnancy care. 
  

• These efforts did not land well for Arizonans. Aside from filling the comments of his tweets with messages of disapproval, voters overwhelmingly passed Prop 139 in 2024. When asked by the Arizona Capitol Times if Biggs would support an attempt to repeal Prop 139 as governor, his campaign advisor did not address the question and redirected by insulting Biggs’ opponent, the incumbent Gov. Katie Hobbs. 
  

• His campaign has additionally scrubbed his website of anti-abortion sentiments. A Wayback Machine search from Nov. 5, 2025 showed Biggs’ congressional campaign website with a section called “Defending Life,” in which Biggs wrote inaccurate information about abortion, used anti-abortion jargon, and boasted about his record fighting to defund Planned Parenthood. 
  

• Biggsforcongress.com now reroutes to Biggs’ gubernatorial candidacy site. His new campaign website makes no mention of his position on abortion under the “Issues” tab.
  

• Today, Democratic Gov. Hobbs has similarly vetoed bills to restrict women’s reproductive healthcare. If Biggs were elected in November, he would have the opportunity to sign multiple anti-abortion laws. Some have already been written and could be resurfaced.
  

• In 2025, House Republicans advanced what some called a “backdoor abortion ban,” and Hobbs vetoed it. The bill would require AHCCCS, Arizona’s Medicaid agency, to prohibit Medicaid funds from going to any provider that performs or “promotes” abortion. That would mean any clinic offering or educating about abortion could be prevented from accepting patients on Medicaid for any reason, not just abortion, severely limiting women’s healthcare options and encouraging reproductive healthcare clinics to stop providing abortion education.
  

• And back in 2021, Sen. Sine Kerr, now Biggs’ running mate for lieutenant governor, proposed an amendment to HB 2140, an otherwise unrelated bill concerning license plate designs. The amendment Kerr added to this license plate bill would have made it a felony for a physician to perform an abortion after detecting a fetal heartbeat. After the Senate Appropriations Committee adopted the amendment, the bill was dropped after not being scheduled for a floor vote. 
  

• Were Biggs to become governor, Arizona Republicans in the state Legislature could reintroduce such anti-abortion and anti-reproductive rights bills, or creatively amend other bills to allow restrictive measures to sneak through.
  

• “I think we would see the floodgates open if Andy Biggs was able to lock in that governor’s seat,” Salman said. “And it would just be more of the same, just lawsuit after lawsuit and just wasting taxpayer money when Prop 139 won every single legislative district in the state.” 
  

• Even if Biggs were to sign bills into law that were determined to be unconstitutional, opponents would have to contend with years of litigation while the laws remained in place. 
  

• Judicial selections could also result in anti-abortion judges in local and state courts. 
  

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