PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has delivered a landmark decision in giving the go-ahead to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions, drastically altering the legal landscape for terminating pregnancies in the state. The law predating Arizona’s statehood provides no exceptions for rape or incest and allows abortions only if the mother’s life is in jeopardy. …
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Former President Donald Trump says the Arizona Republican Party’s recent pro-life legislation went “too far” after previously stating abortion issues should be left to the states. Trump spoke to reporters after landing in Georgia on Wednesday and was asked for his reaction to the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling outlawing all non-lifesaving abortions. Asked Wednesday whether the state judges went “too …
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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D) on Tuesday called out Republican lawmakers who retreated from a state Supreme Court ruling that revived a 160-year-old, pre-statehood law that criminalizes abortion. Hobbs told CNN host Anderson Cooper that Arizonans are “reeling” from the decision, which reinstated a near-total abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest. She called the decision “very harmful” …
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Republican lawmakers in Tennessee on Wednesday advanced legislation making it illegal for adults to help minors get an abortion without parental consent, sparking objections from Democrats who counter that doing so could result in young victims needing approval from their parents who may have raped them in order to terminate the pregnancies. The GOP-controlled Senate signed off on the proposal …
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Former President Trump lashed out at his former vice president in the wee hours of Wednesday over disagreement on abortion policy. Trump published on his proprietary social media site, Truth Social, a furious tirade against former Vice President Mike Pence. “Former Vice President (thank you President Trump!) Mike Pence has been doing a lot of talking about Abortion lately. He …
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Simon Harris became Ireland’s youngest-ever prime minister on Tuesday and vowed to bring “new ideas, a new energy and a new empathy to public life.” Harris, 37, succeeds Fine Gael Party colleague Leo Varadkar,who announced his resignation nearly three weeks ago, and takes the reins of a government that is facing sharp criticism for its handling of the country’s housing …
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USA Today changed a headline about presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump’s abortion stance after the Biden-Harris campaign called it “erregiously false.” On Monday, Biden-Harris campaign managerJulie Chavez Rodriguez, deputy communications directorBrooke Goren andpro-abortion advocate Kaitlyn Kash held a press call to discuss media coverage of Trump announcing his position on whether abortion should be banned. Trump explicitly affirmed his support …
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By forming the Supreme Court majority that would finally reverse Roe v. Wade and restore the right of the people and their elected representatives to protect unborn children and their mothers in the law, President Trump can truly be called the most consequential pro-life president in history. The role of his leadership in creating the life-saving opportunity the pro-life movement …
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Donald Trump told me he wanted to devise an abortion compromise that would “make everyone happy.” I said I didn’t think that was possible. But he didn’t dispute a New York Times report that he was talking to advisers about banning the procedure after 16 weeks, soon modified in another interview to 15 weeks. Instead, in an early morning video …
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The pro-life movement accomplished its goal: overturning the judicial precedent of Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Roe v. Wade through the conservative-leaning Supreme Court in the summer of 2022. In the blockbuster case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court opinion, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, ruled in 5-1-3 decision that: “We hold that Roe and Casey must …
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