Democrats in the Arizona House of Representatives tried repeatedly to repeal an 1864 ban on abortion on Wednesday but failed to get the Republican support they needed against the Civil War-era measure poised to become state law once again.
In San Francisco, the growing threat to abortion rights has inspired people to get involved in some creative ways, including two women who are baking for a good cause.
An effort to repeal the state's 1864 abortion law by Arizona House Democrats fell short during a special vote Wednesday to suspend rules to advance a measure for a floor vote.
Though she's glad she had kids, the talk show host appeared exasperated by the thought of Arizona lawmakers preventing others from making their own choice.
The Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling last week to uphold the Civil War-era near-total abortion ban infuriated supporters of abortion rights, exhilarated abortion opponents, and set off a political firestorm in Arizona.
The Arizona state House is scheduled to hold a floor session first, followed by the state Senate. The House may vote on House Bill 2677, introduced by Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton to repeal the 1864 abortion law,
After previously opposing abortions for rape and incest, some Senate Republican candidates in key battleground states now say they support those exceptions.
Alicia Macklin and Rachel Zacharias of Hooper, Lundy & Bookman PC discuss issues over preemption and state bans on abortion as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in two consolidated cases involving the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
A bill that would repeal Arizona’s 160-year-old abortion ban was successfully introduced in the state Senate on Wednesday after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives failed to advance a similar effort.
William T. Howell, who copied the 1864 law from California, was a progressive by the standards of the state Supreme Court that resurrected his statute.
Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs reacts to GOP lawmakers blocking an effort to advance a repeal of the state’s 160-year-old abortion ban, days after the state Supreme Court revived the law.
Arizona Republicans blocked the second effort in two weeks to repeal the Civil War–era abortion ban. According to The New York Times, after GOP lawmakers initially resisted Democratic efforts to reverse the law last week,
There are many old and unenforceable state laws that are left on the books because of inertia. It might seem unnecessary for a state legislature to repeal a law that is not enforc
Is it possible for us to get to the same place on gun safety that we’re getting to on abortion — where the people who make the policy feel pressure to be sensible?
The Republican-controlled Arizona House of Representatives once again failed to advance a repeal of the state’s 160-year-old abortion ban Wednesday, days after the state Supreme Court roiled state politics by reviving the law.
Arizona House Republicans again on Wednesday blocked an attempt to repeal the 1864 ban on nearly all abortions that was reinstated last week by the state Supreme Court. The big picture: Democrats and a handful of supportive Republicans may have a chance to try again this afternoon before the chamber adjourns.
Arizona law forbidding abortions, upheld by the State Supreme Court, also sets the age of consent for females at 10 years.” Arizona’s Supreme Court ruled to bring back an 1864 abortion law that is part of a larger set of laws called the Howell Code that governed the Arizona territory during the Civil War.
If the Supreme Court overturns legal precedents on these and other issues, old state laws that haven’t been enforced, possibly for centuries, can suddenly spring back to life. This is what happened after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on April 9,
This November, there could be over a dozen states that consider an abortion referendum, which would be a record number of ballot measures that have long-lasting implications for abortion policy in
A Republican bill recently introduced in the Ohio Legislature seeks a prohibition of state funding for abortion-related services, for which similar statutes and regulations already exist. State Rep. Josh Williams,
Abortion remains mostly legal in 27 states, though there are varying restrictions based on gestational age. In some cases, states have added new protections for abortion since the Dobbs ruling by enshrining the right into their state constitutions.
Arizona’s Supreme Court judges just joined others in a line of states taking foolish measures to roll back abortion rights, reasserting an 1864 law banning the procedure outright. Meanwhile, groups
Just months away from a presidential election that could decide the future of reproductive rights, congressional Democrats and abortion rights groups are not on the same page. Many Democrats are warning that the right wing plans to revive the Comstock Act,