It was a total spectacle at the Arizona State Legislature today. Democrats in both the House and Senate tried to push for a vote to repeal the 1864 Civil War Era ban on abortions but were rebuffed by rule-breaking Republicans in the upper chamber and sidelined with a recess by the MAGA crowd in the … Read more
My first thought is that the situation Arizona’s women, their families, and caregivers have been left in by this decision by the Arizona Supreme Court (AZSC) is appalling, inhumane, and utterly unacceptable to the vast majority of Arizonans. Therefore, this will not stand. Arizona’s voters will enshrine the right to abortion care consistent with the … Read more
The road to a Democratically controlled House of Representatives in Washington D.C. may go through Arizona thanks to today’s Arizona Supreme Court ruling outlawing women’s reproductive freedom. Surprisingly, there is maybe bipartisan agreement among Democrats and Republicans at the House level that the Arizona State Supreme Court overreached in invalidating a 2022 Republican ban on … Read more
Many State Legislative Democrats did not have kind remarks toward the Arizona Supreme Court after that body dealt a potential death blow to women’s reproductive and healthcare freedoms by reaffirming that a Civil War Era ban on abortion was still the law of the land now that Donald ‘I Killed Roe v Wade’s’ Supreme Court … Read more
The Mayors of two of Arizona’s most renowned cities were quick to condemn the Arizona Supreme Court’s Handmaids-Back in Time to the Civil War decision outlawing most abortions in the Grand Canyon State. Appearing with many leading Democrats (including Attorney General Kris Mayes and prominent legislators) at a press event at the Capitol Rose Garden, … Read more