Arizona may be one vote away from a repeal of its Civil War-era abortion law

[brooklynite]

Arizona Republic

The Arizona Senate is poised Wednesday to cap three weeks of roiling debate over abortion as lawmakers consider repeal of a near-total abortion ban dating from 1864.

Indications are the closely divided Republican-controlled Senate will approve the repeal with not a vote to spare.

Arizona has been center stage of the national abortion debate ever since an April 9 state Supreme Court ruling upheld the 1864 law. It bans abortions in all cases, except to save the life of the mother, and imposes prison terms for doctors or others who aid in an abortion.

The ruling has divided the GOP majority at the statehouse, with a handful of Republicans in both chambers willing to join with Democrats to repeal a 160-year-old law that they feel is unreasonable and inappropriate for current times.

[MineralMan]

1. I hope they make the right choice there.

AZ is my birth state, although I never actually lived there after I was three months old.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Deffierence between Dems and Republicans

THis issue is important for the country, Dems will repeal this happily becuase it's the right thing to do. Republicans had the same opportunity on border security, but they chose to vote it down becvause the right thing for the country doesn't matter, they'd rather use the border as an election issue than fix the problem now.