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Dora Juhl, a 15-year-old teenager, walked into Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido’s obstetrical practice in Phoenix in January 1918. Juhl wanted to end her pregnancy. But abortion was illegal in Arizona. Boido, the city’s sole female physician, asked Juhl for US$100 – about $2,000 today – to perform the abortion. Juhl said she could pay $27 More
The Arizona Senate voted Wednesday to repeal the state's 1864 abortion ban, sending a measure to the Democratic governor that would end weeks of turmoil and keep in place a 15-week abortion limit enacted in 2022. In a testy and emotional session that included angry spats, a senator reading from the Bible and another playing a recording of his daughter's fetal heartbeat, the Senate voted 16 to 14 to repeal the law, with two Republicans joining Democrats in backing the measure. The Senate was...
The Arizona Senate voted today to repeal the state’s 1864 ban on abortion that could have gone into effect within weeks if not struck down.
Repeal expected to be signed by governor won’t go into effect until 90 days after end of current legislative session
Two Republicans join Democrats to repeal law brought back to life by state's supreme court.
The Arizona Senate voted on Wednesday to repeal the state's Civil War-era
The Arizona Senate passed a repeal of the state’s near-total ban on abortion Wednesday, capping a weekslong legislative scramble to respond to the state Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling that upheld the law from 1864. The bill, which the state House approved last week, will soon head to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. She is expected to sign it into law Thursday afternoon. Two Republicans — Shawnna Bolick and T.J. Shope — joined all 14 Democrats in the narrowly divided Senate in approving a repeal...
Having only just found out she was pregnant, what she had really wanted was time to think, but that was a luxury she felt she could not afford."The laws in Arizona are really dicey right now, so I wasn't sure what would be available to me," said Piper, who wanted to use a pseudonym to discuss her choice about one of the most divisive issues in America.Piper, 30, fell pregnant unexpectedly -- her partner told her he had undergone a vasectomy, but he was keen to go through with the pregnancy."I...
April 24 (UPI) — Arizona’s Republican-controlled House voted Wednesday to overturn the state’s 1864 ban on nearly all abortions. The vote paves the way for a repeal that would revert Arizona abortion law to a 15-week ban. The measure, which now heads to the state Senate for a vote next week, passed Arizona’s House on Wednesday by a […] The post Arizona House votes to repeal 1864 abortion ban first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
The Arizona state Senate voted to repeal a near-total abortion ban revived by the state Supreme Court, paving the way to roll back the 1864 law.
A local Arizona news outlet published a story last week highlighting remarks the Republican Senate candidate and election denier Kari Lake made to a crowd at an event put on by the Mohave County