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...
PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats at the Arizona Legislature are expected to make a final push to repeal the state’s long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions that a court said can be enforced. Fourteen Democrats in the Senate are hoping to pick up at least two Republican votes Wednesday to win final approval of the repeal
PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats in the Arizona Legislature are expected to make a final push Wednesday to repeal the state’s long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions, which a court said can be enforced. Fourteen Democrats in the Senate are hoping to pick up at least two Republican votes to win final approval of the repeal []
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 Senate voted on Wednesday to repeal the state's Civil War-era
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.
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Florida, where a six-week abortion ban took effect on Wednesday. Delivering her remarks in Jacksonville, Harris blamed former President Donald Trump for the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 and said the state’s new, more restrictive law is “the new reality under a Trump abortion ban.”
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
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...
Democrats pick up support of two Republicans to repeal law reinstated three
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.