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Kari Lake makes calls to legislators in push for repeal of Arizona abortion ban she previously backed
NBC News ^ | April 12, 2024 | Vaughn Hillyard, Megan Lebowitz and Alex Tabet

Posted on 04/12/2024 7:37:46 AM PDT by Coronal

Senate candidate Kari Lake has made calls to state lawmakers to push for the repeal of Arizona's Civil War-era abortion ban, according to a Republican legislator who spoke about receiving a call from her.

The GOP-controlled Legislature is considering its next steps after the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state's 1864 near-total ban on abortion is enforceable. The Arizona House convenes again Wednesday.

Lake's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday evening on her lobbying of state lawmakers.

Lake, who has said she opposes the court's ruling, is among the many Arizona Republicans who have scrambled to distance themselves from the 19th century statute, despite having previously voiced support for it. Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego has highlighted Lake's earlier comments about the ban.

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who has urged the Legislature to repeal the law, said Thursday that calling a special session would not be useful now because “the votes obviously are not there.”

Hobbs said she is in discussion with Republican lawmakers and leadership to repeal the ban but declined to name any legislators.

Republicans in Arizona hold slim majorities in both chambers — a 31-28 advantage in the House and a 16-14 seat advantage in the Senate.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: abortion; alextabet; arizona; fakenews; frdemocratoperatives; meganlebowitz; vaughnhillyard
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To: Owen

Look at the conservative states that are voting to allow abortion. Like gay marriage, the landscape changed quickly.


41 posted on 04/12/2024 8:45:37 AM PDT by joesbucks (For 2,000 years Christians have been warning of the Anti-Christ. Now they buy Bibles from him. )
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To: DiogenesLamp

Sigh.

Someone with common sense.


42 posted on 04/12/2024 8:46:12 AM PDT by stanne
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To: FreeReign
DeSantis wasn't for a total ban in FL.

Wow, so you’re going to try to use Lake’s latest complete capitulation on abortion as a reason to attack DeSantis, out of the blue? Ok, fine, I know that’s all that some people want to do. And it’s true DeSantis hasn’t come out in support of a 100% abortion ban. But he’s always been pro life, and his policies and laws in Florida are close to a 100% ban, as close as any state has come.

Lake on the other hand, is flip flopping on abortion, once again. How many times in her life is it now? Not only that, but she now even wants to partner with Democrats to block the new pro life ruling in Az, which isn’t just theater, but putting actual lives at risk. But you’d rather attack DeSantis than discuss that, obviously.

43 posted on 04/12/2024 8:48:45 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
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To: Miami Rebel
I’m going to call BS on people who fling around the “R” word (RINO) when they express contempt for Republicans who stray from the doctrinaire conservative position that we like, yet find ways of justifying divergence from the Good and Pure when we are in their camp. Lake and Trump have both taken shots at a state law which Republican legislators have supported. If their names were switched McConnell and Murkoswki they’d be villified and run out of town.

If you can't see the difference between the strategies ofLake/Trump and McConnell/Murkowski then you are beyond help.

44 posted on 04/12/2024 8:49:06 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: nwrep

There was a time when flip flopping was seen as something not good. Now we’re championing it?


45 posted on 04/12/2024 8:49:57 AM PDT by joesbucks (For 2,000 years Christians have been warning of the Anti-Christ. Now they buy Bibles from him. )
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To: DiogenesLamp

What good is political power, if you’ve already conceded and abandoned your core issues and beliefs in order to gain power?


46 posted on 04/12/2024 8:50:41 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
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To: Golden Eagle
And it’s true DeSantis hasn’t come out in support of a 100% abortion ban. But he’s always been pro life, and his policies and laws in Florida are close to a 100% ban, as close as any state has come.

So both Lake and DeSantis are against a 100% ban. Got it.

47 posted on 04/12/2024 8:51:53 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: HandBasketHell; All

Yes, they think Jesus shouldn’t have gone on the cross because...Murder. God knew better. John 11:50, give it a read.


48 posted on 04/12/2024 8:52:06 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: nwrep

“Kari wants to be a winner. Nothing wrong with that.”

Somehow, I suspect that God has a completely different concept of what that “winner” actually means.


49 posted on 04/12/2024 8:53:38 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Coronal

Hypocrites, got what they wanted, now want to do away with it just as quickly. All talk, not prepared for success as it was just a money scam. True for all supposed pro-life candidates that now want to embrace abortion. Do they really think this will win them votes?!


50 posted on 04/12/2024 8:55:41 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: FreeReign

What strategy are you referring to?

McConnell and Murkowski haven’t attacked the Arizona law. Graham has defended it. But they’re RINOs?

(N.B.: I’m speaking only to the issue of the Arizona anti-abortion law. Who, to your mind, is espousing the RINO position?)


51 posted on 04/12/2024 8:56:16 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: FreeReign
So both Lake and DeSantis are against a 100% ban. Got it.

Only a fool who doesn’t truly care about the pro-life issue would attempt to make such an asinine equivalency between DeSantis and Lake on abortion. Yes I said it, because there’s is no other way to describe your ridiculous failed attempt at an analogy. You’re trying to defend and prop up Lake’s support of abortion and tear down DeSantis’s strong opposition to it in one fell swoop. Well it’s clearly ridiculous and I thought better of you, but that was quite the expose you displayed for everyone.

52 posted on 04/12/2024 9:00:45 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
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To: joesbucks

Yup. It’s all about winning.


53 posted on 04/12/2024 9:03:59 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep
Yup. It’s all about winning.

In a Charlie Sheen kind of way, obviously.

54 posted on 04/12/2024 9:04:59 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
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To: Miami Rebel

No. Conservatives in the electorate need to quit f ing depending on government and politicians to change the hearts and minds of the hard headed birth control it’s in the electorate and get to work

People are communists. They want laws and politicians in power to kindly start being moral and to change people by ruling pro life

Then they hate trump

Then they want Trump alone with the help of lake, gaetz and green to change the laws then the minds of the electorate

They want Trump to be a dictator on this

Get a clue about how our government is supposed to work and quit depending on government

Look at the pre amble. If you don’t have a copy in your house- and if you don’t you need to stop posting ignorance- the people rule this country. The people want abortion

A presidential or senate candidate is not going to change their minds. It is their peers and elders who will do that. Cultural material, teachers, etc.


55 posted on 04/12/2024 9:07:09 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Golden Eagle
So both Lake and DeSantis are against a 100% ban. Got it.

Only a fool who doesn't truly care about the pro-life issue would attempt to make such an asinine equivalency between DeSantis and Lake on abortion. Yes I said it, because there's is no other way to describe your ridiculous failed attempt at an analogy. You're trying to defend and prop up Lake's support of abortion and tear down DeSantis’s strong opposition to it in one fell swoop. Well it's clearly ridiculous and I thought better of you, but that was quite the expose you displayed for everyone.

You make absolutely no logical point. Instead you spew emotional nonsense when I point out your inconsistency. My point, now in bold, stands.

56 posted on 04/12/2024 9:11:05 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: nwrep
Yup. It’s all about winning.

No win, no babies get saved. Not too complicated.

57 posted on 04/12/2024 9:12:02 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: DiogenesLamp

If its that far gone, its gone already. I don’t think its worthwhile and it is foolish to compromise on a intrinsic human right to life.


58 posted on 04/12/2024 9:13:44 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: FreeReign
You make absolutely no logical point.

Yes I did. Your failed attempt at equating Lake and DeSantis on abortion positions is completely illogical, as they are clearly diametrically opposed in general. It shows you care little to nothing about the actual issue, or principle, and care only about the personalities involved.

59 posted on 04/12/2024 9:16:26 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
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To: Coronal

It took 3 little rats to write this with the headline they lifted from the propagandists at Yahoo


60 posted on 04/12/2024 9:17:23 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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