Several Republicans running in key House districts called for the state legislature to address the decision.
Republican lawmakers and candidates for Congress are scrambling to create distance between themselves and anIt's part of the difficult political balancing act Republicans have had to perform since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.Driving the news:
The Arizona court, which is composed entirely of Republican-appointed justices, ruled 4-2 that an 1864 law making it a felony to perform an abortion supersedes theThe 19th-century law provides exceptions only to save the life of the mother.Rep.
"This is an awful ruling," said Biden-district Rep. Marc Molinaro . "I care about the difficult choice women have to make, said I would reject a national abortion ban, and kept my word.""Republicans have been crystal clear where they stand, and they must continue to articulate their commonsense position," a GOP strategist working on House races told Axios.
Rep. Susan Wild said in a statement to Axios that "extreme politicians created this problem, and you better believe they're going to try to run away from it." "They publicly twist themselves into pretzels to distance themselves from court decisions that are completely in lockstep with the horrible and dangerous policies outlined by their party leadership. ... It's outrageous."
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