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- Arizona Home voted 32 to twenty-eight to repeal the 160-year-old legislation banning abortion
- State Supreme Court docket dominated 1864 legislation might be enforced on April 9
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The Arizona Home voted to repeal the 1864 legislation banning abortion in practically all circumstances simply weeks after the state Supreme Court docket delivered a controversial determination that sparked outrage nationwide.
The Home voted to repeal the 160-year-old legislation with three Republicans crossing get together strains to vote with Democrats.
The laws now heads to the state’s Republican managed Senate.
Arizona’s Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs has been urging the Republican managed legislature to cross laws repealing the Civil Warfare-era legislation ever because the state Supreme Court docket’s determination got here down that the legislation might be enforced sending shockwaves by way of the nation.
Abortion rights protesters gathered outdoors the Arizona Capitol on April 17, 2024
Democrats within the state legislature have been urging the repeal of the legislation that was within the books earlier than Arizona even turned a state for 3 weeks.
Two earlier efforts to repeal the 1864 legislation had been blocked by Republicans in current weeks.
On Wednesday, three Republicans within the Home voted on HB2677 with Democrats. The ultimate vote was 32 to twenty-eight.
On April 9, the state’s highest court docket dominated the legislation might be enforced which bans abortion in early all circumstances, with restricted exceptions to save lots of the lifetime of the mom. The legislation doesn’t embrace exceptions for rape or incest.
It paved the way in which for Arizona to have one of many strictest abortion bans within the nation because the Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v Wade in 2022 ending the federal proper to an abortion and returning the problem to states.
