Rep. Ruben Gallego Says Codifying Abortion Rights Is Necessary To Combat Arizona's 1864 Law
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The 1864 law would make abortion illegal except for pregnancies that threaten the life of the patient. It makes no exceptions for rape or incest.
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) said any solutions besides codifying abortion rights would be insufficient to combat the near-total abortion ban from 1864 that may be implemented in Arizona.
“The damage is done,” Gallego, who’s running for the state’s U.S. Senate seat, told NBC News on Sunday. “Any initiative they pass right now wouldn’t even take effect for quite a while.”
The Arizona Supreme Court decided Tuesday that the 1864 abortion criminalization law could go into effect and sent it back to a lower court to hear arguments. The law would make abortion illegal except for pregnancies that threaten the life of the patient. It makes no exceptions for rape or incest.
The law is not currently in effect, but it would supersede the state’s 15-week abortion ban.
Gallego also explained why a repeal of the 1864 abortion ban wouldn’t work, saying, “To make matters worse, it could just get overturned later by another state House or state Senate.”
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