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
Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake said in an interview with an Idaho media outlet that "unfortunately," her state's near-total abortion ban dating from 1864 is not being enforced, flipping back on comments she made against the law earlier this month, when she called state legislators asking them to repeal it. In an interview with the Idaho Dispatch on Saturday, Lake described the recent court decision upholding the 1864 law: “The Arizona Supreme Court said this is the law of Arizona. But...
Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Kyrsten Sinema, is having a very difficult time figuring out just what it is she stands for, depending upon who she’s talking to. That’s leading her to swing wildly from the far-right fringes steeped in conspiracy theories to trying to put on a “moderate” face to consolidate support. Abortion is the most obvious example of Lake’s confusion, where she’s flip-flopped between absolute bans, allowing each individual...
Kari Lake dismissed the significance of Arizona’s abortion ban and suggested tax cuts and other economic measures are the best way to reduce abortions, despite widespread evidence showing the effectiveness of pro-life laws.
The Arizona Supreme Court recently ruled to stay a total abortion ban, and Kari Lake’s moderate response drew criticism from pro-lifers — including Allie Beth Stuckey. The court had allowed an 1864 statute banning abortion to stand, which Lake called “out of line with where the people of this state are.” “This very moderate, sophisticated, pragmatic, pseudo-compassionate stance that we actually need to be much more middle of the road on abortion,” Stuckey says, is “absolutely egregious.” ...
After former President Donald Trump and Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake distanced themselves from the law, some abortion rights opponents are left wondering who they can count on.
After a conservative majority of the Arizona Supreme Court ruled April 9 to uphold an antiquated near-total abortion ban from 1864, the shockwaves on both sides of the political aisle were immediate and obvious. Democrats decried the court’s decision, vowing to redouble efforts to pass an amendment to the state’s constitution. If passed, the Arizona Abortion Access Act would effectively negate the court’s ruling and guarantee abortion access to all Arizona citizens. Republicans faced a far...
On Wednesday, the Arizona state House rejected another motion to repeal the state’s 1864, Civil War-era criminal abortion ban, which is set to take effect in a matter of days after a state Supreme Court ruling last week. (However, a bill was successfully introduced in the Senate!) The furor surrounding the ban, which would criminalize and imprison anyone who provides abortion care except to save someone’s life, is expected to have significant electoral repercussions, especially as the state is...
Republican attorneys general from 17 states filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging new federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions, calling the rules an illegal interpretation of a 2022 federal law.
Arizona Senate hopeful Kari Lake appears to have changed her position on the state's Civil War era total abortion ban — again.Immediately after the Republican-controlled state Supreme Court allowed the ban — which was passed decades before Arizona even became a state and makes no exceptions other than to save the life of the pregnant woman — to be enforced, Lake came out with a statement condemning the decision, saying, "it is abundantly clear that the pre-statehood law is out of step with...
Arizona House Republicans fended off another attempt on Wednesday to repeal an 1864 law that limits nearly all abortions — a law that the Arizona Supreme Court recently upheld over a new 15-week abortion limit.
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