Republican leaders claimed a repeal bill for the 160-year-old anti-abortion statute was being rushed.
Members of Arizona for Abortion Access, the ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona State Constitution, hold a press conference and protest condemning Arizona House Republicans and the 1864 abortion ban during a recess from a legislative session at the Arizona House of Representatives on April 17, 2024.was reinstated last week by the state Supreme Court
In the State House of Representatives on Wednesday, Democratic lawmakers were joined by just one Republican in an attempt to pass a bill that would repeal the 1864 law. It wasn’t enough to overcome the GOP majority in that chamber, Rolande Baker, a 72-year-old from Tucson who had traveled to Phoenix to support repeal, expressed deep frustration with the actions taken by Republicans in the state legislature.
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