“Either they existed 100 years ago (Arizona) OR they were passed knowing they would not take effect because of Roe.”
No, nope, only passed recently when the Mississippi case was headed to the Supreme Court.
The total ban is nonsense, always has been. People always righteously throw up the rape and incest argument, which happens but only rarely. So, the solution to all of this, they maintain, is to open the floodgates and let 60 million babies be murdered.
Arizona has a law dating back before statehood banning almost all abortions. It passed in 1864 and may or may not be in effect.
It also has a recent law criminalizing abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
I believe there IS good political support statewide for the recent law. Doubt there is much support for the 1864 law. Both were on hold until the right to make laws was returned to the state.
“Five days after the Supreme Court’s decision, Brnovich said the state’s 158-year-old law remains in effect.
Under the 158-year-old law, anyone who facilitates a procedure that causes a miscarriage or abortion can face two to five years in prison. While Arizona’s law makes it a crime to aid a woman in a miscarriage or abortion, the law does allow for such procedures if they are “necessary to save her life.”
“Our office has concluded that the Arizona Legislature has made its intentions clear regarding abortion laws,” Brnovich wrote on Twitter earlier in the month.”