Arizona supreme court upholds 1864 law banning almost all abortions
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Source: Guardian/US
The Arizona supreme court ruled Tuesday to let a law banning almost all abortions in the state go into effect, a decision that could curtail abortion access in the US south-west and could make Arizona one of the biggest battlefields in the 2024 electoral fight over abortion rights.
The justices said Arizona could enforce a 1864 near-total abortion ban, first passed before Arizona became a state, that went unenforced for decades after the US supreme court legalized abortion nationwide in the 1973 decision Roe v Wade. However, the justices also ruled to hold off on requiring the state to enforce the ban for 14 days, in order to allow advocates to ask a lower court to pause it again.
The ban can only be enforced “prospectively”, according to the 4-2 ruling. Minutes after the ruling Kris Mayes, Arizona’s Democratic attorney general, vowed not to prosecute any doctors or women under the 1864 ban.
“Today’s decision to reimpose a law from a time when Arizona wasn’t a state, the civil war was raging, and women couldn’t even vote will go down in history as a stain on our state,” Mayes said in a statement.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/09/arizona-supreme-court-abortion-decision
WTF! A law from 1864!
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This is an assault on women. Women will not go back. Drs. and nurses being held liable. WTF. 
Here is a link on DU celebrating the ruling. 
https://democraticunderground.com/100218849627
for posting that thread. November will see many women voting to stop this. They are messing with the wrong people.
Not in celebration either but rather because they see their dreams for the future of being in office going up in flames as the November elections draw near 
I don't feel even one iota of sympathy for them as for decades their party has used being against abortion as a dog whistle for their base and they can now fucking choke on it.
