New Report: “Andy Biggs’ anti-abortion record looms over Arizona governor’s race”
7/6/26, 9:30 PM
New reporting has laid out how Andy Biggs’ decades-long anti-abortion record will be at the “center” of the race for governor in Arizona, following his refusal to say whether he’d repeal Prop 139, the constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights that 61 percent of Arizona voters approved just two years ago.
As American Journal News reported, “Biggs is so committed to his anti-abortion views that he openly wept while discussing the issue during a May 2020 interview.”
That extreme record includes:
In the state Legislature, Biggs pushed multiple abortion bans with no exceptions for rape or incest and used his office to pass laws with the stated goal of "intimidating abortion providers."
In Congress, Biggs cosponsored a nationwide abortion ban five separate times – legislation that also lacked exceptions for rape or incest and would have jeopardized Arizonans' access to IVF, contraception, and lifesaving cancer treatments.
Biggs has called the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade a “major victory.” When a Civil War-era ban was reinstated in Arizona in September 2022, Biggs celebrated it as a “monumental win.”
Biggs said that banning abortion is his “number one issue,” calling it “barbaric,” “evil,” and a “heinous genocide.”
Read more about Biggs’ extreme anti-abortion agenda:
American Journal News: Andy Biggs’ anti-abortion record looms over Arizona governor’s race
Jesse Valentine
July 6, 2026
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs sailed to victory in 2022 with a promise to protect abortion care. Now, that same issue is likely to be at the center of her reelection campaign.
Hobbs’ likely Republican opponent is Rep. Andy Biggs, who has spent his two decades in public life voting to curtail abortion access and making inflammatory remarks about the procedure. His campaign has been endorsed by multiple anti-choice groups, including Turning Point Action and the Arizona Freedom Caucus.
Biggs is so committed to his anti-abortion views that he openly wept while discussing the issue during a May 2020 interview.
“Each person is made in God’s image,” Biggs said, his voice breaking. “It is a gift from Him. Our obligation then is to protect life, particularly those who cannot protect themselves … That’s my witness and my testimony.”
More recently, Biggs wrote on X that “life begins in the womb” and said “Congress must protect the unborn and fight to ensure that Americans’ taxpayer dollars are never used to fund their slaughter.”
In Congress, Biggs co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act five separate times. If passed, the legislation would effectively ban all abortions regardless of state laws, imperil access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and some forms of birth control, and create criminal penalties for doctors who perform abortions.
“Purporting that a fetus has the same rights as a child creates chaos in the law, undermines the rights of pregnant people, and can prevent people from building the families they want,” Planned Parenthood said of the bill in 2024.
The proposed law would also override Proposition 139, which enshrined a right to abortion care into the Arizona constitution and was supported by 61% of the state’s voters. Hobbs endorsed the proposition, while Biggs opposed it.
In addition to supporting Proposition 139, Hobbs signed a bill [repealing] Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban, which became enforceable after the Supreme Court nullified Roe v. Wade in 2022. Her reelection has been endorsed by the advocacy group Reproductive Freedom for All.
“Governor Hobbs has been a committed champion of reproductive freedom her entire career,” the group said in a social media post. “In her first term, she led the effort to repeal Arizona’s 1864 total abortion ban and approved over-the-counter contraception at pharmacies in the state.”
Biggs will compete in a July 21 Republican primary for the gubernatorial nomination against fellow Republican Rep. David Schweikert, who also identifies as an anti-abortion candidate.
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