Ruling in Arizona puts abortion at the center of 2024 elections

ToughTalk · Apr 16, 2024

Bowerbird said: ↑

AAAANNNNNDDDD this won’t work - it just pisses off both sides
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His side is locked down. His base, in case you hadn't noticed...is with him through thick and thin. The only thing this does is unarm the democrats with their only platform to run on...abortion.

Richard Franks · Apr 24, 2024 at 7:14 PM

The history of Arizona’s 1864 near-total abortion ban - Vox

The Republican-controlled Arizona House has repeatedly refused to take up a measure to repeal a Civil War-era state law that amounts to a near-total ban on abortion following an Arizona Supreme Court ruling earlier this month that the law can be enforced.

Democrats in the chamber — as well as both former President Donald Trump and Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake, in an election-year shift toward a more moderate stance on abortion — have pushed the Arizona legislature to overturn the law. Motions to debate legislation to overturn the law have been brought three times, and each has failed. If lawmakers do not reverse it, the law could go into effect in the coming weeks, threatening access to reproductive care for about 1.6 million people of reproductive age.

It’s one of several abortion laws enacted before the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade that have been revived since the justices overturned Roe in 2022. Resuscitating these laws has created legal headaches, in part because they were written in a very different time for reasons that have little in common with the concerns of anti-abortion advocates today.

Arizona’s ban, first passed in 1864 and codified again in 1901 and 1913, says anyone who “provides, supplies or administers” an abortion or abortion drugs will face a state prison sentence of two to five years unless the abortion is necessary to save the life of the person who is pregnant. Taken out of the 19th-century context in which it was passed, that language would seem to amount to a near-total ban on abortion.

But that’s not how the law was originally enforced. Few people were prosecuted under the Arizona law or similar ones in other states. At the time, first-trimester abortions were widespread and widely accepted in the public conscience.

Abortion laws of the mid-1800s were the product of discussions among lawyers and doctors and were designed to professionalize abortion services and medicine writ large — a seemingly noble cause, but also one driven by physicians’ self-interests and the desire to both boost (white) women’s birth rates and weaken a nascent feminist movement.
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On their third attempt in three weeks, Arizona state House lawmakers voted Wednesday to pass a bill that would repeal the near-total ban on abortion from 1864 that was upheld by the battleground state’s Supreme Court earlier this month.

After a dizzying course of votes throughout the afternoon, three state House Republicans joined Democrats in approving a repeal of the Civil War-era law that made abortion a felony punishable by two to five years in prison for anyone who performs one or helps a woman obtain one.
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The Arizona Republicans are doing what it takes to get their way on the Abortion issue and see to it that nothing gets in their way in getting what they want. I don't consider it fair in any way. Why can't they leave well enough alone. Banning something that was legalized 51 years ago is uncalled for. That's like taking certain privileges away from certain people. and do you call it fair?

Arizona state House passes bill to repeal 1864 abortion ban after several failed attempts (msn.com)

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