Arizona Supreme Court rules a near-total abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable

[Francee89]

Only two Republicans in the Arizona Senate voted to consider a repeal. The Senate will write a bill, which can’t be voted on for two weeks, but there’s no guarantee it will pass the Arizona House, where only one Republican voted to consider repeal and it therefore failed.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/17/arizon ... ban-repeal

“"The last thing we should be doing today is rushing a bill through the legislative process to repeal a law that has been … reaffirmed by the legislature several times," Republican House Speaker Ben Toma said as he voted against the motion.”

It also sounds like Arizona Republicans want to introduce a competing ballot measure that will set a later gestational limit on abortion, but will not codify the right to abortion and will leave the power to regulate it in the legislature’s hands - I can’t imagine anything more than their actions and statements like that - which make it clear they don’t actually care to act on this - to make that sound like an extremely unappealing option.

[Francee89]

More footage sure to make its way into Democratic ads.



Truly curious what the plan is here - you’d think a party that could lose both state legislatures, two state Supreme Court judges, a Senate seat, at least two competitive House seats and the electoral college votes for President wouldn’t be dragging their feet on repealing something so unpopular, and yet…