Thursday, May 2, 2024

GET ME REWRITE: 28 of 31 GOP representatives in Arizona House vote to keep 1864 abortion ban in place


HeadlineNew York Times, 4/24/2024
Republicans have narrow majorities in both chambers of Arizona’s Legislature, and had blocked earlier repeal efforts in the two weeks since the Arizona Supreme Court ignited a political firestorm by reviving the Civil War-era law. 
But on Wednesday, despite last-minute delay tactics and emotional speeches from conservatives who equated abortion with murder and slavery, Republican lawmakers from districts in the Phoenix area and a rural farming county joined with Democrats to pass the repeal bill, 32 to 28.

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