The Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, called for an Arizona supreme court ruling to be repealed that permits enforcement of an 1864 law banning almost all abortions. Speaking at a press conference the governor said: ‘The near total civil war-era ban that continues to hang over our heads only serves to create more chaos for women and doctors in our state.’ First passed when Arizona was still a territory, the ban only permits abortions to save a patient’s life and does not make exceptions for rape or incest.
Law was created during the civil war. Republicans wanna force people back to a world where slavery still exists.
AZ will be voting Blue in November.
AZ already voted blue. It apparently doesn’t matter if judges get to legislate.
Judges confirming existing laws. Laws must be re-written. Old laws must be banished. Vote Blue.
69,000 pregnancies from rape last year in America.
The only anti-abortionists whose views are at all consistent are the ones who want no rape exception for abortion. A fetus is a fetus.
Of course, they know that virtually no one else, even many hypocritical anti-abortion people, would accept that, so they usually don’t push for it.
That hasn’t stopped Republicans in ten states from pushing that extreme position into law, though.
https://www.cnn.com/us/abortion-access-restrictions-bans-us-dg/index.html
Republicans have made a lot of hay out of legislating from the bench.
It doesn’t matter what the people want. All they need to do is put the right judges in place.
Can someone with a legal background explain to me how a law written before the state even existed is somehow considered more legitimate than current law?
did they do something like roll all previous laws into current ones at incorporation/ statehood?
Most states just continued their territory laws into state laws. By the time that Arizona became a state, there was a well used process of territories becoming states, including an established territory legislature and executive nominated by the President.
It would usually be the task of the first legislature to change any law that needed to be changed to work with the new state constitution, but the changes would likely be minimal.
