Andy Biggs is running for governor of Arizona. And according to a new report from American Journal News, there's one part of his record he can't outrun: he is one of the most extreme anti-abortion politicians in the country — in a state whose voters just said, loudly, that they want abortion to stay legal.
Arizona already voted on this
In November 2024, Arizona voters passed Proposition 139, which put the right to abortion directly into the state constitution. It wasn't close. The measure passed with about 61% of the vote.
Biggs opposed it.
Think about what that means. More than three in five Arizona voters — Republicans, Democrats, and independents — chose to protect abortion rights. Biggs stood against them. Now he's asking those same voters to make him governor.
He didn't just oppose Arizona's choice. He tried to ban abortion everywhere.
Biggs' record goes far beyond one ballot measure. In Congress, he co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act five separate times, according to the American Journal News report. The most recent time was January 2025 — you can see his name on the cosponsor list at congress.gov, one of 112 House members who signed on.
That bill is a national "fetal personhood" law. It would define life as beginning at fertilization — everywhere in America, no matter what any state's voters or constitution say. That means Arizona's Prop 139 wouldn't matter. The report notes the bill would effectively ban all abortions regardless of state law and could put IVF and some forms of birth control at risk.
So when Biggs says he respects Arizona voters, remember: he signed onto a bill that would erase their votes.
His own words
Biggs hasn't been shy about any of this:
- He posted on X that "life begins in the womb" and that Congress must make sure taxpayer dollars are never used to fund what he called "slaughter."
- In a May 2020 interview, he described protecting the unborn as his personal "witness and testimony."
- His own congressional office put out press release after press release, including one demanding a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and one announcing that he introduced three anti-abortion bills on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
And it started long before Congress. In the Arizona legislature, Biggs supported multiple 20-week abortion bans — some with no exceptions for rape or incest, per the American Journal News report.
Why this matters in the governor's race
A governor isn't just a talker. A governor signs and vetoes bills, appoints health officials, and decides how state agencies treat abortion providers and patients. Handing that power to a politician who opposed Prop 139 — and spent his career trying to ban abortion nationally — puts Arizona's constitutional right on a collision course with its own governor.
Voters seem to sense it. A May poll from Noble Predictive Insights showed Governor Katie Hobbs leading Biggs by four points in a hypothetical matchup, according to the report.
First, though, Biggs has to win the July 21 Republican primary, where he faces fellow Congressman David Schweikert — who has his own anti-abortion record.
Here's the bottom line. Arizona voters already answered the abortion question — with 61% of the vote. Andy Biggs heard that answer and co-sponsored a national abortion ban anyway, less than three months after the votes were counted. Arizonans deserve a governor who listens to them, not one who tries to overrule them.
Source
Read the full report at American Journal News: Andy Biggs' anti-abortion record looms over Arizona governor's race by Jesse Valentine. Photo: AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, via American Journal News.
