'I think it’s important we do what there’s consensus' for on abortion, the former governor and current senator says.
It remains to be seen if the new statement will mark a return to the broad pro-life platform Trump ran on in his previous candidacies or double down on attempts to chart a new middle ground on the issue.
In a historic decision Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled the state must adhere to a 123-year-old law barring all abortions except in cases when “it is necessary to save” a pregnant person’s life. The law, which can be traced to as early as 1864 and was codified in 1901, also carried a prison sentence of two to five years for abortion providers. There is a 14-day stay on the law. Arizona’s near-total abortion ban will be one of the strictest in the nation, placing it alongside Texas,...
Democrats have a chance to corner Republicans on an unpopular issue – and defend a modern and egalitarian societyThey don’t need Congress. The anti-abortion movement is preparing to ban abortion nationwide as soon as a Republican takes the White House, and under a bizarre legal theory, they don’t think they even need congressional approval to do it. That’s because anti-choice radicals have begun to argue that an 1873 anti-obscenity law, the Comstock Act, effectively bans the mailing, sale,...
Abortion access now is a state-by-state patchwork of laws that is ever-changing as new restrictions take effect.
Republican former President Donald Trump said on Monday that he thinks abortion bans should be left to the individual states.Trump made the announcement on his social media platform, Truth Social, with seven months to go until the 2024 presidential election."The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land," Trump said. "In this case, the law of the state."He said that many states will have varying limitations without a...
With a near total ban about to kick in in Arizona, abortion providers are keeping an eye on options in other states.
Doctors, confused about how to practice medicine under Idaho’s abortion ban, pleaded with state legislators for a solution. by Kyle Pfannenstiel, Idaho Capital Sun Idaho, already in a doctor shortage, is losing doctors who specialize in obstetrics and gynecology. In a presentation at the Idaho State Capitol Building on Wednesday, Idaho medical leaders say the workforce shortage is exacerbated by doctors’ confusion about how to practice medicine under Idaho’s abortion ban that only...
Arizona’s highest court has revived a 160-year-old law banning all abortions unless a mother’s life is at risk and punishing doctors who perform the procedure with prison sentences.
On Thursday, lawyers for seven women who were denied abortions and two doctors in Tennessee argued for a temporary block of the ban
(The Center Square) - The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in a 4-2 decision on Monday that the 1864 ban on abortion altogether will take effect in two weeks, instead of keeping a 2022 law that bans abortion after 15 weeks. “Absent the federal constitutional abortion right, and because [the law] does not independently authorize abortion, there is no provision in federal or state law prohibiting [the law’s] operation. Accordingly, [the 1864 law] is now enforceable,” the court’s...
Lawsuit challenging Indiana abortion ban survives a state challenge