Since this is so highly voted, maybe also note that the key is "before term", which is not the case as far as I can tell in the article.
Not that I don't find the practice repugnant, but let's not steer off into outright FUD when blasting our moral outrage.
"Normal" induction (i.e. absent specific reasoning) is at 39 weeks or beyond.
So some outrage is, in fact, justified.
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying there's not enough information to be sure.
Also vile, that the women were then billed for the cost of their inductions, despite them being in custody. Arizona seems to want it both ways (which is unsurprising, given that they have a pretty horrific history in such things - until last year, prisoners in active delivery were still required to be handcuffed to beds and still kept in shackles, through birth itself) - you're a ward of the state (which generally _doesn't_ remove medical autonomy), so we'll make your medical decisions, and then we'll bill you for our choices.