Tag: Matt Gress

(Almost) 1864 no more: Arizona House repeals Civil War-era abortion ban

After two weeks of thwarted attempts, the Arizona House voted Wednesday to repeal a near-total abortion ban from 1864, with three Republican lawmakers breaking from their party to join Democrats in striking it down. Earlier this month, the Arizona Supreme Court upheld the 1864 law, which carries with it a mandatory prison sentence for doctors who provide an abortion for any reason other than saving a woman’s life, over a 15-week gestational ban passed in 2022. …

Gloria Rebecca Gomez | Arizona Mirror

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April 25, 2024
Trump’s brags on banning abortion could haunt him in Arizona

If ever there were a case study on shameless right-wing political hypocrisy and opportunism, abortion would be the issue and Arizona would be the setting. And women’s rights over their bodies would be all but marginal in the equation…

Rekha Basu

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April 22, 2024
‘We kept our soul’: GOP keeps blocking repeal of Arizona abortion ban

All but one Republican in the Arizona House blocked a motion Wednesday to bring to a vote a repeal of the state’s recently resurrected 1864 ban on abortion, which has no exceptions for rape or incest. Rep. Matt Gress, a Republican running for reelection in a swing district that straddles Phoenix and Scottsdale, joined the chamber’s 29 Democrats in trying to force a vote on House Bill 2677…

TJ L’Heureux

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April 19, 2024
Arizona Republicans now regret abortion ban they refused to repeal

Republican officials in Arizona are denouncing a court ruling on Tuesday that an 1864 ban on abortion in nearly all cases, including cases of rape or incest, is once again state law. But Republicans’ public concern for the ruling from the state Supreme Court is inconsistent with the actions they took to ensure the ruling was possible, wiping out fundamental freedoms for millions of Arizonans…

TJ L’Heureux

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April 11, 2024