Gov. Katie Hobbs plans to sign the repeal of the law that bans nearly all abortions — keeping the state's 15-weeks-of-pregnancy ban in place. But it's unclear when the repeal takes effect
Arizona's Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes, speaking in Phoenix last month after the state's supreme court ruled that an 1864 ban on abortion could be enforced, had pledged not to enforce the law. Now the legislature has voted to repeal it.
The repeal passed the Republican-led Senate by a vote of 16 to 14, with a couple Republicans joining Senate Democrats. Last week the House passed a bill to repeal the law and Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has promised to sign it after Senate approval. But lawmakers lacked the votes to make the repeal effective immediately, meaning there could be uncertainty for months about whether it can still be enforced.
"They should have repealed it a long time ago so we wouldn't be in this position," Hobbs said last week."Unfortunately, it's not possible to get this repeal enacted right away."The 1864 law passed when Arizona was a still U.S. territory and it outlawed abortions except to save the life of the mother. It remained effectively dormant during the decades that Roe vs. Wade enshrined a federal right to abortion.
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