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Arizona GOP Senate hopeful and potential Republican vice-presidential candidate Kari Lake has made conflicting statements about the state’s recently restored 1864 abortion ban. Having initially campaigned on behalf of its reinstatement and then suggesting it went too far after it was reinstated, Lake appears to have changed her mind about the ban yet again, lamenting in a recent interview that it was not being enforced. 'The Arizona Supreme Court said this is the law of Arizona.
' I've written about how the unpopularity of draconian abortion bans among voters has put Republicans in a bind. But the constant flip-flopping of individual politicians — alongside the party's larger inability to reach a consensus position on the issue — underscore how the GOP simply does not have a leader to whom they can turn to set a consistent or even coherent message on abortion rights.
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