Arizona Allowed to Enforce Near-Total Abortion Ban, Says County Judge
Pima County Superior Court Judge, Kellie Johnson, last week granted a request by Arizona's Republican attorney general to lift a court injunction that had barred the enforcement of a pre-statehood ban on abortion.
Facts
- Pima County Superior Court Judge, Kellie Johnson, last week granted a request by Arizona's Republican attorney general to lift a court injunction that had barred the enforcement of a pre-statehood ban on abortion.
- Friday's ruling means that clinics statewide will have to stop providing abortions - any that continue offering the procedure may face criminal charges, unless a pregnant person's life is in jeopardy due to the condition.
- The reinstated law, which dates from 1864, bans abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. The law was updated and codified in 1901, before the Supreme Court enshrined a federal right to abortion through Roe v. Wade in 1973. Because of the reinstatement, doctors and other healthcare professionals could face between two and five years in prison for performing an abortion in Arizona.
- A spokesperson for Arizona's Republican governor, Doug Ducey, has stated that, "Ducey was proud to sign SB 1164, which goes into effect tomorrow. Arizona remains one of the most pro-life states in the country."
- On Saturday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated that, "the potential consequences of this ruling are catastrophic, dangerous and unacceptable," and that the decision "exemplifies the disturbing trend across the country of Republican officials... dead-set on stripping women of their rights."
Sources: Reuters, Associated Press, Guardian, ABC, and Axios.
Narratives
- Democratic narrative, as provided by AZ Central. Arizona's abortion ruling is literally sending women's rights back more than a century and a half. Republicans have succeeded in catastrophically eroding reproductive rights through this sickening, draconian setback.
- Republican narrative, as provided by The Federalist. Corporate media is not interested in the reality that left-leaning abortion extremism is extremely unpopular among Americans. Dozens of mainstream outlets are failing to ask difficult questions about the dangerous and inflammatory ideas the left-wing are proposing, and that are opposed by their audiences. This reflects a serious journalistic failure.
