Abortion is still legal in Arizona. But confusion and fear abound

The US supreme court decision ending the federal right to abortion has led to legal chaos and a de facto ban for many

A day after the supreme court upended reproductive freedom by overturning Roe v Wade, nine out of Arizona's 10 clinics stopped providing abortions.

Arizona was not among the states with trigger laws that automatically banned most abortions after the ruling in June overruled 50 years of legal precedent, yet a slew of confusing and contradictory laws meant abortion care became virtually impossible to access anyway.

A so-called personhood law

A ban after 15 weeks due to take effect in late September

A 19th-century law banning all abortions