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.”
“It passed in 1864”
I cannot damn believe you hardheaded people. I am intimately acquainted with Louisiana and Mississippi and their abortion laws were passed very lately and the one in Louisiana had “trigger” laws in it, based on what the Supreme Court would rule on the upcoming Mississippi law.
Other states did the same thing. Now, you can go back in history and find any law you want in some state. ALL the abortion laws that were on the books previous to Roe v Wade were declared unconstitutional long ago, so the states had to start over. Louisiana has been passing laws against abortion for at least twenty years, and they were all shot down in the Federal courts based on the Roe v Wade ruling.