Eva Burch is a Democratic state Senator in Arizona. Last month, I had a safe, legal abortion in Arizona. Today we are all tied up in white-knuckled knots, wondering if we’re going to start throwing doctors in jail for the care they gave me. People of America: We need to …
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While many Republicans celebrated the Arizona Supreme Court declaring abortion “illegal” in the state on Tuesday, some of the party’s members who could be at risk of losing reelection in the Grand Canyon state opposed the decision — even if it meant changing their previously stated stance on the issue. …
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This week Fox News received its marching orders from its favorite viewer: Donald Trump. As the former president attempts to soften his platform on abortion rights — claiming on Monday that he now supports states setting their own laws despite recently floating a national ban — the network is lauding …
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Less than 72 hours after publicly declaring his belief that states should decide their own abortion laws, Donald Trump is already contradicting himself by saying that what some states have decided needs to be changed. On Monday, Trump announced a pivot in his stance on reproductive rights, after months of …
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The Arizona Supreme Court has revived an 1864 criminal ban on abortion. The Civil War-era law, which predated Arizona statehood by almost a half a century, prohibits abortion at any stage of pregnancy, for any reason other than when “necessary” to save the pregnant person’s life. The ban carries a …
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MAGA Senate candidate Kari Lake once called an archaic Arizona law that bans abortion in the state a “great” law that she would be “incredibly thrilled” to have it go into effect. Well on Tuesday it did, and Lake is now attempting to reverse course as Republicans continue to face …
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Former President Donald Trump released a video Monday declaring his new views on abortion policy. He did not announce support for a national abortion ban, and instead stated that the issue should remain in the hands of individual states. While Trump took credit for the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning …
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Donald Trump — the man most responsible for triggering the end of a federal right to abortion — announced Monday that if he wins the presidential election in November, he does not plan to support further federal restrictions on the practice and would allow it to remain a state issue. …
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The Florida Supreme Court has cleared the way for a ban on abortions at six weeks gestation — before many women realize they are pregnant — to go into effect. At the same time, the justices on Monday approved a measure to be placed on the ballot this November that, …
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that threatens to limit access to mifepristone — a critical component of the abortion pill protocol —nationwide. A decision in the case is not expected until June, but close observers of the Supreme Court seem to think the case will …
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