Posted on 04/09/2024 10:29:58 AM PDT by CFW
PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban still on the books in the state is enforceable, a bombshell decision that adds the state to the growing lists of places where abortion care is effectively banned.
The ruling allows an 1864 law in Arizona to stand that criminalized abortion by making it a felony punishable by two to five years in prison for anyone who performs or helps a woman obtain one.
The law — which was codified again in 1901, and once again in 1913, after Arizona became a state — included an exception to save the woman’s life.
That Civil War-era law — enacted a half-century before Arizona even gained statehood — was never repealed and an appellate court ruled last year that it could remain on the books as long as it was “harmonized” with the 2022 law, leading to substantial confusion in Arizona regarding exactly when during a pregnancy abortion was outlawed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
How?
Getting pot legalization on the ballot. That is designed to get the traditionlly liberal but apathetic youth vote out.
Making the election about abortion, under the guise of women's rights. That alone touches 50% of the voting population.
The GOP will now lose Arizona in November.
Arizona is Conservative more in the Ron Paul sense than in the right-to-life sense. Nor that I am not right-to-life, I am, but I see Arizona as more middle of the road Conservative than social conservative.
Only being done to guarantee endless stocks of mail in ballots and high turnout for democrats. Do not be fooled.
When someone says "care" in the context of abortion, they need to be immediately and repeatedly punched in their lying mouth until they understand that lying about this subject deserves getting punched in the mouth.
That was my first thought as well.
While I’m possibly the furthest thing from a wise-ass Latina supreme Court Justice, that sure looks like “Stare Decisis” to me.
Good point. It's "stare decisis" if the left wants to maintain the status quo, but "antiquated" if the left wants it changed. At least that's that humble opinion of this non-biologist who's typing this.
The evil rats are licking their chops with glee! This is their golden road ticket to the WH reelection narrative. So far they are 13-0 wins with the demonic abortion baby sacrifice on the ballot. We need a miracle in November to defeat these POS demons!
BINGO!! Now you know the evil game they’re playing! Only God Himself can intervene and put a stop to their demonic game plans. But I doubt He will… we have become a godless evil sinful nation. I would not doubt for one minute that God has had enough of America and its evil dark hearted deeds. Remember evil never sleeps or gives an inch.
Well, if we can believe public opinion polls , only 13% of people in this country want to ban abortion in all circumstances.
Heck even here on Free Republic. , we are divided on what to do about abortion in our political system.
When put to a vote of the people, I don’t know if there’s any state in America where the people would vote to ban abortion completely.
Weird how Trump came out with his abortion speech yesterday and the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on 123 year old law today. If that is not collusion with the rats I don’t know what is. It seems like a well orchestrated and planned action to bring out the women’s vote. Suffrages should’ve never gotten the vote never. Sorry that’s the way I feel and I’m a woman.
Maybe this is bad politics, but calling it RINO is leftist levels of insane. FR has gone so far off the deep end now that a conservative ruling is RINO if it hurts Trump's chances.
Republican politics has been so hijacked by Trump that there is no principal except his electoral success. If Trump came out as pro-choice half the people who support him would instantly change their self-identification to pro-choice and half of the rest would somehow try to explain it as Trump really being more pro-life than anyone else.
There really isn't even the fig leaf of principal anymore. It is just group A and group B. The "left" who are winning the culture and have the most economic power yet think they are systematically oppressed, versus the "right" who are losing the culture and who are economically losing and think they are being ideologically repressed.
Just bizarre times all around.
If the law is “enforceable” but isn’t enforced...
Yep! There is zero chance of repeal, but please keep on making snide allusions to the folly of allowing females the vote. That should certainly help our cause. No chance that married women (who have long voted equally as conservative as their husband’s come election day) might become exhausted by or feel insulted by men in her own coalition casting equal aspersions on every woman for the idiotic & predictable voting patterns of a specific group of women: younger, unmarried, childless, faithless, indoctrinated, well-heeled, post-graduate, sheltered, urban & suburban women with no actual life experience & are existing in a bubble. No chance that constantly listening to a group of men in her own coalitionmight become so tiresome that she throws her hands up & opts not to vote because she senses she isn’t welcome anymore.
I can honestly tell you that I consider myself an extrist right-wing conservative that sits somewhere to the right of Ghengis Kahn: I’m a morally traditionalist, economically free-marketeer, Constitutionally originalist, small government libertarian who believes in a complete immigration moratorium, uniculturalism, heavily guarded borders, total opposition to international organizations or trade alliance& the enactment of every election, law practice, ID & and oversight, quadruple-checking procedure that makes vote fraud impossible for leftists.
Sick of the bull crap of some of yall! Not sure how it isn’t remotely obvious to you. The whole goal of an election is adding votes to your cause & your candidates. Whether anyone likes it or not- winning now & for the foreseeable future depends on winning over the votes of enough females & enough younger people & enough racially diverse folks to declare a majority victory on election day. YOU ARENT HELPING DO THAT!! The attitudes and comments of a lot of yall are actually working overtime to be offensive, alienate people & push them toward not voting 😑 PLEASE STOP!! 🙄🫣
Ah, yes.
The old “if it weren’t for double standards liberals wouldn’t have any standards at all” bit.
I get it.
Give it up on the 19th. We are never going back nor should we.
The only thing more asinine would be repealing the 21st, but there are probably some dolts who would like to do that, too.
Abortion is a losing issue for Republicans.
My apologies to the millions of great American like you. To a small degree l know how you feel. I’m in Mi and people say it is bunch of clueless rats up here but not all if us not by a long shot. That said it’s just a fact without the women the rats would not control one part of the Government. With they have control of all of it. I hate saying it but it’s true.
Now Kari Lake is pro-choice.
Staying home.
“Suffrages should’ve never gotten the vote never.” If you choose to believe that, then please follow your beliefs and don’t vote again-ever. Hysterics like that do nothing but make all of us conservative women look bad-we are not going to give up our rights to please anyone-just let it go...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.