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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.
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.
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