Once again, Arizona Republicans block efforts to repeal the 1864 abortion ban
After House Republicans repeatedly thwarted a bid to repeal the ban, two Senate Republicans backed a push in that chamber to move the repeal forward.
By Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror
A bid to repeal Arizona’s near-total abortion ban that was written when Abraham Lincoln was president will move forward in the state Senate, while Republicans in the House of Representatives for the second week in a row blocked efforts to repeal the law.
On Wednesday, two Senate Republicans supported a Democrat-led move to introduce a bill to strike down the state’s near-total ban on abortions from 1864. The law is set to go back into effect in June, after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled last week that it supersedes a 15-week gestational law passed in 2022.
Shortly after that ruling was released, Democrats in both chambers of the state legislature made several attempts to repeal the law, with no success despite limited support from across the aisle.