Abortion politics and policy are clashing here like in no other state as the Republican-led Legislature convenes Wednesday to sort out the aftermath of a ruling allowing a statewide ban to take effect within weeks. It adds more uncertainty for a state that has sometimes felt like the center of the political universe since President Biden’s 2020 victory here helped seal his election, prompting the first false cries from former President Trump that the election was rigged. Republicans here are...
There is hope for a different future for abortion in the state even as Republicans flounder in their responseThe waiting room of the Acacia Women’s Center in Phoenix, Arizona, was calm and quiet on Friday. Patients sat with their mothers, friends or partners, paying no mind to the slapstick Tyler Perry movie on the TV and an arrangement of Vogue magazines resting on a table.It had been three days since the state’s highest court reinstated an 1864 law that would ban almost all abortions and send...
As support for abortion even in states as red as Kentucky and Kansas grows, the GOP appears to be breaking ranks with the hardlinersIn the two years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, the 50-year-long partnership between Republicans and anti-abortion activists has steadily fractured as political backlash to abortion bans has mounted. But perhaps the biggest crack emerged on Wednesday, when Arizona’s Republican-controlled state legislature moved to repeal the state’s 1864...
The recent history of the term 'political correctness' and its association with the contemporary left and the tedious culture wars obscures its true character and ubiquity. Political correctness is real, significant, and arguably the dominant mode of politics since before humans could even talk. It is the few trying to rule over the many by persuading the many that they are in the minority.The goal of this form of politics is the manufacturing and maintaining of 'pluralistic ignorance' where...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Arizona moves closer to repealing 1864 abortion ban The GOP-controlled Arizona House voted Wednesday to repeal an 1864 ban on nearly all abortions, after three Republicans broke ranks to vote with all the chamber’s Democrats. © AP The
The Arizona Supreme Court has reinstated a criminal law from 1864 that nearly completely banned abortions in the state, resulting in a near-total ban that will be enforceable in 45 days.
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.
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story HHS’s final rule on protecting abortion records The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its final draft of a post-Dobbs rule protecting patient records from being used to potentially prosecute patients who receive reproductive health services
Golden state expanded abortion access after Roe was repealed in 2022 while neighboring state is set to enact near-total banAs Arizona prepares for a near-total ban on abortion to go into effect in the coming months, providers in California are getting ready to welcome a surge of out-of-state clients and live up to the state’s reputation as an “abortion sanctuary”.California clinics have been treating patients confused by the legal framework in neighboring Arizona ever since the supreme court...
As state supreme courts consolidate power and corporate money, shoddy oversight allows justices to hide their financial conflicts of interest from the public.