Arizona’s top court on Tuesday revived a ban on nearly all abortions under a law from 1864, a half century before statehood and women’s suffrage, further restricting reproductive rights in a state where terminating a pregnancy was already barred at 15 weeks of gestation.

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled, opens new tab 4-2 in favor of an anti-abortion obstetrician and a county prosecutor who pressed to implement the Civil War-era statute after the Democratic attorney general of the key presidential battleground state declined to do so.

States were given the go-ahead to adopt such bans after the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 overturned its landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade that had made access to abortion a constitutional right nationwide.

Arizona Justice John Lopez, who like all of the state Supreme Court’s members was appointed by a Republican governor, wrote that the state’s legislature “has never affirmatively created a right to, or independently authorized, elective abortion.”

  • @HootinNHollerin
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    5 months ago

    I think the heat made em hate but maybe they just can’t read and it’s all the same to them

    Fuck religion

  • Flying Squid
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    Literally two days ago-

    WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump said individual states should choose their own abortion restrictions, avoiding talk of any kind of federal government ban and drawing criticism from Democrats and anti-abortion Republicans alike on a pivotal election issue.

    “At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people,” Trump said in a video posted Monday on his Truth Social platform.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/08/donald-trump-national-abortion-ban/73241518007/

    So much for the will of the people.