A similar repeal of Arizona's 1864 abortion ban passed the GOP-controlled House last week, and Gov. Katie Hobbs has said she'd sign the measure.
Arizona 's Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday is set to vote on repealing a Civil War-era abortion ban, one week after a similar motion passed the GOP-controlled state House. After two failed attempts, three Republicans in the state House on joined all the Democrats in successfully voting to repeal the law, sending it to the Senate. The 14 Democrats in the state Senate are hoping to pick up at least two Republicans to send the measure to Democratic Gov.
The state Supreme Court found that the 2022 Arizona ban 'is predicated entirely on the existence of a federal constitutional right to an abortion' because the 2022 ban didn't 'independently authorize abortion.' As a result, the court said, there was no provision in either state or federal law that addressed the operation of the 1864 ban, so that ban 'is now enforceable,' the court ruled.
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