if you would like to see this overturned: make sure to become a signature for the Right to Abortion Initiative and, in November, to vote no on retaining Clint Bolick and Kathryn Hackett King—they both voted to uphold this ban, and are up for retention this year
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The ruling allows an 1864 law in Arizona to stand that made abortion a felony punishable by two to five years in prison for anyone who performs one or helps a woman obtain one.
“When this litigation was initiated in 1971, the plaintiffs asserted a number of state and federal constitutional challenges” — to the 1864 ban — “in addition to those presented in Roe v. Wade, which was overruled by Dobbs,” they wrote.
“Let me be completely clear, as long as I am Attorney General, no woman or doctor will be prosecuted under this draconian law in this state,” Mayes said in a statement, adding that the decision was “unconscionable” and “an affront to freedom.”
President Joe Biden, whose campaign is leaning heavily into reproductive rights, won the state by just over 10,000 votes four years ago.
And the Senate race features a tough battle to fill the seat held by the retiring independent Sen. Krysten Sinema, most likely between Democrat Ruben Gallego and Republican Kari Lake.
The ruling Tuesday — the second in a swing state on the issue in as many weeks — further highlights the already prominent role abortion rights will play in Arizona and across the country.
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