If you visited Andy Biggs' congressional campaign website in November 2025, you found a section titled "Defending Life." It carried anti-abortion talking points and boasted about his work to defund Planned Parenthood.
Go to his campaign website today and biggsforcongress.com sends you to his campaign for governor of Arizona. Look under "Issues." There is nothing there about abortion at all.
The Copper Courier's Robert Gundran found the old page in the Wayback Machine and then did the obvious thing: checked whether the record behind it had changed too.
It hadn't.
What was on the page he took down
Biggs has held office in Arizona since 2003 — the state House from 2003 to 2011, the state Senate from 2011 to 2017, and Congress since 2017. Across all of it, on this one subject, he has been consistent.
In the legislature he backed parental consent requirements and limits on insurance coverage for abortion.
In Congress:
- He co-sponsored 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. A provider who skipped any of it could face civil penalties.
- He backed the Life at Conception Act, which would redefine "person" to include a fertilized egg — the zygote and blastocyst stages, before implantation — and extend 14th Amendment protection to every stage of pregnancy. That could produce a national abortion ban by another route. We wrote in July about the five separate times he co-sponsored it, most recently in January 2025.
- He voted for a law requiring clinicians to tell patients that a medication abortion could be "reversed" — a claim that is unproven and dangerous.
- He repeatedly supported defunding Planned Parenthood, which provides low-income women with annual checkups, cancer screenings and pregnancy care.
None of that came off a website. It is in the bill records and the roll calls.
Arizona voted the other way, and he was asked about it
In 2024 Arizona voters passed Prop 139, writing a constitutional right to abortion into the state constitution — by a margin that, Reproductive Freedom For All's Arizona director says, carried every single legislative district in the state.
The Arizona Capitol Times asked Biggs' campaign whether, as governor, he would support an attempt to repeal Prop 139.
His campaign advisor did not answer the question, and insulted Gov. Katie Hobbs instead.
That is the same maneuver as the website. Not a reversal — a silence.
What a governor can actually do here
Prop 139 limits how far any Arizona governor can go. It does not make the office irrelevant, and the Copper Courier's reporting lays out exactly where the reach still is.
Signing bills the current governor vetoes. In 2025, House Republicans advanced what critics called a backdoor abortion ban: it would require AHCCCS, Arizona's Medicaid program, to bar Medicaid dollars from any provider that performs or "promotes" abortion. A clinic that so much as educated patients about abortion could be blocked from taking Medicaid patients for anything — checkups, cancer screenings, prenatal care. Hobbs vetoed it. A Governor Biggs would not have to.
Amendments nobody sees coming. In 2021, state Sen. Sine Kerr — now Biggs' running mate for lieutenant governor — attached an amendment to HB 2140, a bill about license plate designs, that would have made it a felony for a physician to perform an abortion after detecting a fetal heartbeat. The Senate Appropriations Committee adopted it. The bill was never scheduled for a floor vote and died. The tactic didn't.
Undoing an executive order with a signature. In 2023, Hobbs signed an order moving all abortion-related prosecutions to the Arizona Attorney General's office, taking that power away from county attorneys. Attorney General Kris Mayes has said she will never prosecute abortion. A governor can cancel an executive order on day one.
The courts. Gov. Doug Ducey expanded the Arizona Supreme Court and reshaped the commission that screens judicial nominees. Those judges are still there.
And an unconstitutional law is not a harmless one: opponents have to contend with years of litigation while the law stays in place. Athena Salman, Arizona director for Reproductive Freedom For All, points to a pending challenge over whether nurse practitioners can provide early abortion care — they're trained to, and Arizona law bars it. It was filed at the end of February 2026, and Salman says oral arguments aren't scheduled until May 2027.
The rest of the record he isn't advertising
The Copper Courier notes what else is on Biggs' 23-year ledger: he opposed funding for the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund, voted against making Juneteenth a federal holiday, denies climate change, and personally blocked a bill banning texting while driving for new drivers with learner's permits. He chaired the House Freedom Caucus.
What the record shows
Andy Biggs spent more than two decades building an anti-abortion record — ultrasound mandates, a bill defining personhood from fertilization, votes for medication-abortion "reversal" language, and repeated attempts to defund Planned Parenthood — and boasted about part of it on a page called "Defending Life." That page is gone from his campaign site, and his governor's site says nothing about abortion. Asked directly whether he'd support repealing the constitutional protection Arizona voters passed in 2024, his campaign declined to answer and attacked his opponent instead. The record he removed from the website is the record he would bring to the governor's desk.
Source
Andy Biggs scrubbed abortion from his site, so we checked his record — Robert Gundran, The Copper Courier, August 24, 2026. Photo "Andy Biggs" by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0.
