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,...
The Arizona Supreme Court ruling that restores an 1864 law banning abortion at any stage has Republicans scrambling to distance themselves from the archaic law. The result is some textbook examples of hypocrisy and Republicans screaming in frustration over the results of getting exactly what they insisted that they wanted. The best example of what happens when a dog succeeds in catching the car may be found in a statement from Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake. Lake now says she “opposes”...
A new ruling today from the Arizona Supreme Court revives an old law and enacts a near-total ban on abortion. Such developments are likely to keep the issue in the front of voters' minds, as will messaging from Democrats.
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...
Arizona State Senator Anna Hernandez joins Katy Tur to discuss Arizona Republicans blocking the repeal of the state's 1864 abortion ban that was reinstated.
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...
Democrats in Arizona attempted Wednesday to repeal a law banning nearly all abortions in the state that is set to take effect because of a state Supreme Court decision a day earlier, but they were blocked in both chambers by Republicans. The action took place in both chambers of Arizona’s Legislature. In the House, Phoenix
Arizona Republicans have blocked an initial attempt to repeal a 160-year-old abortion ban that was controversially revived by the state's top court earlier this week.The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday a near-total abortion ban enacted in 1864, decades before Arizona even became a state, was still enforceable. Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to dismantle federal abortion protections by overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, the procedure remained legal in Arizona through 15 weeks of...
A decision by Arizona’s highest court upholding an 1864 ban on nearly all abortions created chaos and confusion across the battleground state on Wednesday. Patients scrambled for answers and Democratic lawmakers shouted “Save women’s lives!” as their efforts to repeal the law were frustrated by Republican leaders. Democrats, who have criticized the decision resurrecting a 160-year-old abortion ban that has no exceptions for rape or incest, quickly tried to push bills through the...
Kari Lake among GOP members condemning state supreme court ruling as party
State Republicans blocked the repeal effort even after Donald Trump called for a more moderate solution
Last week, in a bid to clarify his historically nebulous stance on abortion, Donald Trump said that if reelected, he intends to leave abortion rights “to the states,” seemingly contradicting his prior stance in favor of a 16-week national ban. But Mary Ziegler, a law professor at UC Davis and leading abortion historian, thinks that […]