Democrats in both houses of the Legislature were blocked from advancing bills to roll back a reinstated 160-year-old ban on nearly all abortions in the state.
Patients hunted for answers and Democratic lawmakers shouted “Save women’s lives!” as their efforts to repeal the law were frustrated by Republican leaders.
In the other chamber, a Republican House member who has done a political about-face and called for striking down the law made a motion to vote on a Democratic repeal bill that has sat stalled for months.
The moves in the Legislature came as clinics and patients scrambled to make sense of the legal and administrative confusion left in the wake of the 4-2 vote by Arizona’s high court, with little certainty about just when the 160-year-old ban would go back into effect.
Some Arizona Republicans who had previously voted to support abortion restrictions or give legal protection to fetuses abruptly shifted course on Tuesday concerning the 1864 law, and called for a repeal or some other legislative fix.
But the state’s far-right Freedom Caucus praised the court’s ruling, saying it protected innocent lives, and vowed to oppose efforts to undo it.
Phones have been ringing constantly at Camelback Family Planning, with patients asking whether they can still get services, and for how long, according to Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, the clinic’s owner and medical director.
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Patients hunted for answers and Democratic lawmakers shouted “Save women’s lives!” as their efforts to repeal the law were frustrated by Republican leaders.
In the other chamber, a Republican House member who has done a political about-face and called for striking down the law made a motion to vote on a Democratic repeal bill that has sat stalled for months.
The moves in the Legislature came as clinics and patients scrambled to make sense of the legal and administrative confusion left in the wake of the 4-2 vote by Arizona’s high court, with little certainty about just when the 160-year-old ban would go back into effect.
Some Arizona Republicans who had previously voted to support abortion restrictions or give legal protection to fetuses abruptly shifted course on Tuesday concerning the 1864 law, and called for a repeal or some other legislative fix.
But the state’s far-right Freedom Caucus praised the court’s ruling, saying it protected innocent lives, and vowed to oppose efforts to undo it.
Phones have been ringing constantly at Camelback Family Planning, with patients asking whether they can still get services, and for how long, according to Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, the clinic’s owner and medical director.
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