Arizona has repealed the state’s near-total abortion ban after Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a invoice into regulation Thursday upfront of the 2024 election and potential referendum vote that might enshrine abortion rights into its structure.
Hobbs signedHome Invoice 2677 into regulation as supporters of the measure gathered round her desk.
“Today, we did what 23 governors and 55 legislatures refused to do and repealed the 1864 Civil War-era total abortion ban,” she wrote.
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“I will do everything in my power to protect our reproductive freedoms, because I trust women to make the decisions that are best for them, and know politicians do not belong in the doctor’s office,” Hobbs vowed.
At present, we did what 23 governors and 55 legislatures refused to do and repealed the 1864 Civil Struggle-era complete abortion ban.
I’ll do every part in my energy to guard our reproductive freedoms, as a result of I belief ladies to make the choices which might be greatest for them, and know… pic.twitter.com/32LMZBICnU
— Governor Katie Hobbs (@GovernorHobbs) May 2, 2024
The near-total abortion restriction that Home Invoice 2677 will repeal prohibits abortions all through all 9 months of being pregnant with exceptions in circumstances the place the lifetime of the mom is at risk.
The Republican-controlled Arizona Home of Representatives and the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate handed the laws within the weeks following the Arizona Supreme Courtroom’s resolution to uphold the abortion ban that dates again to earlier than Arizona’s admission to the USA because the forty eighth state.
Within the Arizona Home of Representatives, three Republicans joined all Democrats in voting to repeal the near-total abortion ban, whereas two Senate Republicans broke with their get together to assist the laws.
After the repeal takes impact, the 15-week abortion ban signed into regulation by Republican former Gov. Doug Ducey in 2022 will change into the regulation of the land because it pertains to abortion in Arizona.
The ACLU of Arizona, which supported the repeal of the ban, known as for “further court intervention,” complaining that “access to abortion may be lost after June 27.”
“This cruel law will not be repealed until 90 days AFTER the legislative session ends,” the group acknowledged on social media Thursday.
“Once lifted, people who need abortions will still face other bans.”
Because the U.S. Supreme Courtroom dominated in 2022 that the U.S. Structure does not include a proper to abortion and overturned earlier case regulation in favor of abortion entry, many state legal guidelines banning abortion or proscribing them to the earliest components of being pregnant have been challenged in court docket.
In a post on her private X account, Hobbs famous that the invoice’s signing fell on the second anniversary of the publication of the leaked Supreme Courtroom draft resolution in Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group, which led to a wave of violence and vandalism directed at church buildings and pro-life advocacy teams.
The Dobbsruling was launched a month and a half later and resulted in states charting divergent paths on abortion coverage.
In Arizona’s case, the decades-old abortion ban left unenforceable by the 1973 Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Courtroom resolution that legalized abortion nationwide might take impact, though it confronted a court docket problem. The Arizona Supreme Courtroom dominated final month that since Dobbs overturned Roe, the regulation might go into impact.
Arizona voters will weigh on this November on a proposed constitutional modification that might set up a proper to abortion within the state structure. If voters approve the Arizona Abortion Entry Act in November, the state would be part of California, Michigan, Vermont and Ohio as states the place a constitutional proper to abortion has been established by fashionable vote because the Dobbs resolution.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Submit. He will be reached at: [email protected]
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