On the other hand , after 50 years of Roe V Wade our country has become so depraved that overturning Roe v Wade has been a disaster for anti abortion proponents because the individual states have come up with some of the most radical legislation that effectively legalize infanticide.
Supposedly rational Arizona overwhelmingly approved one of the most radical abortion initiatives in the country in the 2024 election.
The people who wrote the initiative were absolute zealots on enabling abortion and it passed with 62% of the vote.
The language of the Arizona Proposition 139 initiative contains language artfully enshrines infanticide in the Arizona State Constitution and actually provides for the killing of a baby after birth if the abortion provider determines that the baby has not yet reached the state of "fetal viability".
Fetal viability is loosely defined as " the point of pregnancy when there is a significant chance of the survival of the fetus outside of the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures. "
The determination of fetal viability is totally subjective and is left to the judgment of the abortion provider with no provision for third party review or scrutiny.
Even worse, the initiative provides for -
"The measure also provides for the right to an abortion after fetal viability if it is done to protect the life, physical, or mental health of the pregnant individual, in the judgment of a treating health care professional."
So under the Arizona Constitution, it is presumably legal to kill a viable full term baby after birth if it is done "to protect the life, physical or mental health of the pregnant individual, in the judgment of a treating health care professional" .
Here is the text of the summary of Prop 139
"This measure amended the Arizona Constitution to establish that every individual has the fundamental right to abortion that the state of Arizona may not interfere with before the point of fetal viability. Fetal viability is defined in the measure as the point of pregnancy when there is a significant chance of the survival of the fetus outside of the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures. The measure also provides for the right to an abortion after fetal viability if it is done to protect the life, physical, or mental health of the pregnant individual, in the judgment of a treating health care professional. The measure also prohibits laws that penalize individuals for aiding or assisting a person exercising the right to an abortion.[1]
This right cannot be interfered with unless justified by a compelling state interest. In the measure, a compelling state interest is defined as a law or regulation enacted for the limited purpose of improving or maintaining the health of the individual seeking abortion care that does not infringe on that individual's autonomous decision-making"
What has happened to Arizona, my homeland?
When I was growing up, it was thoroughly pro-life!