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"Coming up on the show, Arizona's nearly total abortion ban and its implications for the 2024 election."
"And bans harm pregnant patients in Arizona. It harms folks who are experiencing problems with their pregnancies. It harms folks who are survivors of sexual violence. But most importantly, it harms every arizonan, because we believe that we fundamentally should have the right to make decisions about our healthcare, our lives, and our futures. And your group, Arizona for Abortion Access, said last week that it had gathered more than enough signatures to get an abortion rights amendment to the state's constitution on the November ballot."
"There's the medical and ethical reality, and then there's the political repercussions, which seem to be sort of bad regardless of your view on abortion. And I'll get to that in a moment. The NB NPR article explains abortions will soon be outlawed in Arizona, except in cases where a pregnant person's life is at risk. Note that missing from that are exceptions for rape and incest. The only exception is life of the mother."
"Before we go, some news out of Arizona, where the states Supreme Court has cleared the way for a near total ban on abortion. The court ruled yesterday that Arizona can enforce a law from 1864 that forbids abortions except to save a mothers life. The law also punishes abortion providers with prison time. It could be weeks before the ban takes effect, and a state official said that she wont enforce it. For now, abortions will continue to be available through 15 weeks of pregnancy."
"Arizona's supreme Court decrees a near total ban on abortions. Arizona women should never have to fear the next court decision. The law they're citing dates back to the civil war. Well, now it's impacting a key battleground state. They were the first parents to be convicted of their son's school shooting."
"A lot of states have six week abortion bans. More than 60% of Americans oppose that. This law in Arizona bans abortion without exceptions for rape and incest. That's something that north of 80% of Americans oppose. The law in Arizona gives a two to five year prison sentence for abortion providers."
"That an attempt to create a 15 week abortion ban in Arizona a couple. Of years ago did not replace an. Earlier law from 1850. Something that said, said all abortions are. Illegal unless necessary to save the life of the mother."
"And then there was the law in Arizona. Then there's the 1864 ban. It's just it is women have had enough of this. They want abortion to be safe and legal. They want to be able to access it and make it a choice between them and their doctor."
"That was true in the Arizona before the Arizona decision. That was true after it, and it's true after the law was repealed in the state of Arizona. I think there is some sense that that law really focused people's minds on the issue of abortion, that it was going to put that top of mind for lots of voters, that we believe that to be better for Democrats. I don't think this changes it that much because there is very likely to be an abortion referendum on the ballot in Arizona under all scenarios. And so as long as that is the case, I think abortion will be a incredibly important part of the political conversation and that Donald Trump and Carrie Lake will have to answer for that on a near daily basis."