So, the need to hang on to power overcame—for the time being—their deeply held convictions about abortion.
Good to know.
For two of them, anyway. The rest like being awful just fine
DEEplY HELD BeLIeFS
Yep, such beliefs as “We think abortion is literally the same as murder, but we’ll lie to you and say that we’re fine if you drive three hours to another state to get a murder, until we can pass a nationwide ban.”
This is great news for women in AZ. That said, it also means that AZ isn’t going to be an easy win for Dems in Nov. People won’t be voting on an immediate need to secure abortion rights in their state.
There will be an abortion amendment initiative on the Arizona ballot.
The abortion access measure needs about 384,000 valid signatures from Arizona voters by 3 July to make the ballot and has reported collecting more than 500,000 so far. But the state applies strict scrutiny to citizens’ initiatives, with intense requirements for each signature and the people collecting them. In recent years, groups have sued, at times successfully, to remove signatures for various reasons in attempts to keep measures from reaching the ballot.
“We know the Republicans in the next three months are going to do everything in their power to try to take that initiative off the ballot,” the former Democratic lawmaker and congressional candidate Raquel Terán said at an abortion rights rally last Friday. “So we should not count on just half a million – we need to turn in a million signatures or more. Do not stop. We cannot stop, nor take any signature for granted.”
The issue is alive and well, this is just a tiny positive that reiterates the point that a sweeping change is needed to prevent further fuckery.
There’s a ballot initiative to add abortion access to the Constitution so I don’t think it’s going to make much of a difference for turnout.
Republicans still trying to fine tune things to “just oppressive enough to win elections.”
A great user of everyone’s time and attention span.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
After a dizzying course of votes throughout the afternoon, three state House Republicans joined Democrats in approving a repeal of the Civil War-era law that made abortion a felony punishable by two to five years in prison for anyone who performs one or helps a woman obtain one.
Following that ruling, Republicans across the U.S. — including former President Donald Trump — called on legislators in the state to repeal the ban amid a broader political blowback against the GOP on the issue of reproductive rights in the nearly two years since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.
At the end of Wednesday’s hearing, Grantham said the vote was an “awful, disgusting situation” and stripped Gress, as well as Democratic Assistant Minority Leader Oscar De Los Santos, of their committee assignments.
Wednesday’s proceedings marked the latest chapter in the fight over abortion rights in the crucial battleground following the Arizona Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling earlier this month.
Organizers in the state are likely to succeed in placing a proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would create a “fundamental right” to receive abortion care up until fetal viability, or about the 24th week of pregnancy.
During a brief state House Rules committee hearing Wednesday, Republicans voted to advance three resolutions — without explaining what they were — that Democrats and abortion rights supporters said were likely the GOP-backed ballot measures.
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What do you mean a REPEAL? I thought Abortion was MURDER!
