After House Republicans repeatedly thwarted a bid to repeal the ban, two Senate Republicans backed a push in that chamber to move the repeal forward. By Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror A bid to repeal Arizona’s near-total abortion ban that was written when Abraham Lincoln was president will move forward in the state Senate, while Republicans in the House of Representatives for the second week in a row blocked efforts to repeal the law. On Wednesday, two Senate Republicans supported a...
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 has voted to repeal a law that would prohibit performing abortions except in cases where it is necessary to save the mother's life. The text of the law reads, "A person who provides, supplies or administers to a pregnant woman, or procures such woman to take any medicine, drugs or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless it is necessary to save her life, shall be punished by...
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.
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
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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...
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.
Democrats pick up support of two Republicans to repeal law reinstated three
The state Senate voted in favour of repealing the bill, which narrowly cleared the Arizona House last week and is expected to be signed into law by the governor.
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs is expected to sign the repeal into law in the coming days, but the timing for when the repeal can legally go into effect could still complicate abortion access in the state.