The Arizona Board of Nursing has approved a recommendation from the board’s Advance Practice Committee that nurse practitioners with special training be permitted to perform certain abortion procedures. Under the decision, nurses in the state can perform “aspiration” abortions, in which the fetus is vacuumed out of the uterus, up to the 13th week of pregnancy. Nurses will not be permitted to perform any abortions after 13 weeks’ gestation, the board said.

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