The abortion law was written at a time when Arizona was not a US state and women did not have the right to vote.
of the United States In Arizona, the state house of representatives voted on Wednesday in favor of repealing an abortion law dating back to the 1800s, according to news agency AFP and a newspaper, among others. The Washington Post.
The repeal decision was made when a few Republican representatives supported the Democrats in the vote. 32 representatives voted for the repeal and 29 opposed it.
The voting decision of the Republicans who supported the repeal is at least partly due to the concern that the blackmailing of the abortion right would rain down on the Democrats in the November elections. Despite this, Arizona's House Republicans had blocked two previous repeal attempts.
The state Supreme Court ruled earlier in April that the 1864 abortion law can go into effect. The law prohibits abortions under threat of imprisonment, and it does not allow exceptions in cases of rape or incest, for example.
Measure The repeal of the abortion law will next proceed to the state senate, where, according to The Washington Post, it needs the votes of at least two Republicans in addition to all the Democrats in the governing body.
A similar proposal to repeal the law is already moving forward in the Arizona Senate, which could indicate, according to the newspaper, that the Senate would find support for the bill approved by the House of Representatives on Wednesday. According to The Washington Post's sources, the Senate may vote on the House's version as early as Wednesday next week.
According to the newspaper, Arizona's very strict abortion law had time to temporarily enter into force after the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that protected the right to abortion at the federal level in the summer of 2022. However, the law was challenged through the courts and soon the courts blocked it.
The Arizona Supreme Court revived the law this month. The law could AFP and the news channel CNN's to enter into force in June. State Attorney General, Democrat Chris Mayes has admittedly said that he would not allow anyone to be prosecuted on the basis of that law.
The law was written at a time when Arizona was not a US state and women did not have the right to vote.
Despite of lawmakers' decisions, an abortion law can remain in effect for up to several months after a state governor's decision to repeal it is signed into law. Democratic governor Katie Hobbs has already said he will sign the bill.
“I'm hopeful that the Senate will do the right thing and send it to my desk so I can sign it,” Hobbs said of the bill, according to The Washington Post.
“It would be disastrous if this ban were to be in force even for a moment.”
However, several Republican representatives have expressed their frustration with their colleagues who voted for the repeal decision.
“I'm disgusted today,” a Republican member of the state House of Representatives Rachel Jones said, according to The Washington Post.
“Life is one of the tenets of the Republican party program. When I see people rejecting this value, it's outrageous to me,” he added.
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