HacklemanPoke
Deputy
What we are witnessing is the real time expansion of the abortion exception clause…
1) Rape
2) Incest
3) Health/life of the mother
4) Declining poll numbers
Arizona Supreme Court further restricts abortion, enforcing near-total ban re-establishing Civil War era law
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1) Rape
2) Incest
3) Health/life of the mother
4) Declining poll numbers
Yep.
Abortion is the most powerful issue driving suburban women who could decide the presidential election. Now President Biden is trying to harness that energy, while Donald Trump is looking to redirect it.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll of seven battleground states found that 39% of suburban women cite abortion as a make-or-break issue for their vote—making it by far the most motivating issue for the group. Nearly three-quarters of them say the procedure should be legal all or most of the time, and a majority thinks Trump’s policies are too restrictive.
Abortion has been top of mind for voters since the 2022 Supreme Court decision eliminating federal protections for the procedure, which unfurled a messy patchwork of state laws across the country.
Midnight Toker
New member
MMM i love centuries old laws
Repeal denied by Arizona house. 1864 law stands
www.forbes.com
Arizona House Rejects Effort To Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban
Only one Republican representative voted in favor of the motion, despite a plea from former President Donald Trump to overturn the law.
www.forbes.com
Keep in mind this zealot thinks he’s a Moses.
Stillwater Townie
Deputy
I doubt this Moses knows his ass from a hole in the ground.
A REVERSAL TO THE REVERSAL.
this is like watching a WWE Event. OMG the UNDERTAKER out of NO WHERE with the Steel Chair!! He has BETRYAED the ROCK HERE AT SUMMER SLAM CHOKE FEST '99...HOW COULD HE THEY WERE THE BEST OF FRIENDS
Kari Lake says 'unfortunately' Arizona isn't enforcing 1864 abortion ban, flipping again
Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake said in an interview with an Idaho media outlet that "unfortunately," her state's near-total abortion ban dating from 1864 is not being enforced, flipping back on comments she made against the law earlier this month, when she called state legislators asking them to repeal it.
In an interview with the Idaho Dispatch on Saturday, Lake described the recent court decision upholding the 1864 law: “The Arizona Supreme Court said this is the law of Arizona. But unfortunately, the people running our state have said we’re not going to enforce it,” Lake said, expressing disappointment in steps taken by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes, both Democrats, to block prosecutions under the ban.
“We don’t have that law, as much as many of us wish we did,” Lake added.
Lake’s campaign did not immediately respond to questions about her comments in the Idaho Dispatch interview.
Lake was in Idaho as the keynote speaker for a local county Republican Party dinner. Her comments came in response to criticism from a group that opposes abortion rights, Idaho Chooses Life.
Lake’s latest comments are very different from how she’s been speaking about the abortion law, which bans abortion after conception with no exceptions for rape or incest, since the state Supreme Court’s ruling.
“This total ban on abortion that the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled on is out of line with where the people of this state are,” said Lake in a video posted to X on April 11th.
“We know that some women are economically in a horrible situation, they might be in an abusive relationship, they might be the victim of rape,” Lake went on in the video explaining her opposition to the 1864 ban. “I agree with President Trump, we must have exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of a mother,” Lake added, exceptions lacking in the 1864 ban.
Those comments also represented a change of tune from Lake on the ban. In 2022, while she was running for governor of Arizona, Lake called the law a “great law.” Her likely Democratic opponent for retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s seat, Rep. Ruben Gallego, seized on those comments in an advertisement last week.
“I’m going to go by what she has said for the last three years,” Gallego said when asked whether he believed Lake's recent announcement opposing the 1864 ban. “She really believes that there should be an abortion ban. She’s advocated for an abortion ban."
“She is in support of this territorial ban that’s essentially going to ban abortion and put doctors and nurses in jail," Gallego added.
Meanwhile, as the Idaho episode shows, Lake isn't just getting flack on abortion from Democrats. During a campaign stop at the University of Arizona on April 11, both proponents and opponents of abortion rights criticized Lake for what she's said about the Arizona law.
“I’m not standing in the shoes of a woman who’s been beaten by her… pimp. I’m not standing in her shoes, and neither are you. Are you standing in the shoes of a woman who has been the victim of a brutal rape?” Lake said then, when confronted by an opponent of abortion who expressed disappointment in Lake's comments backing down her support for the ban.
Back on the campaign trail in Scottsdale, Arizona, just a few days later, during a town hall that was supposed to be focused on housing, the moderator, a real estate agent named Jason Mitchell, asked Lake, “Can you explain your shift on abortion from Civil War law to now?”
Mayes, the state attorney general in Arizona, is expected to face legal challenges should she block prosecutions under the abortion ban. The Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling makes abortion a felony punishable by two to five years in prison for anyone who performs one or helps a woman obtain one, and it could take effect as early as June 8, according to Mayes' office.
