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that a 150-year-old law criminalizing abortion in the state could be reinstated, the state attorney general pledged not to enforce it.“By effectively striking down a law passed this century and replacing it with one from 160 years ago, the Court has risked the health and lives of Arizona ns,” Mayes said.She added: “Today’s decision to reimpose a law from a time when Arizona wasn’t a state, the Civil War was raging, and women couldn’t even vote will go down in history as a stain on our state.
“This is far from the end of the debate on reproductive freedom, and I look forward to the people of Arizona having their say in the matter,” Mayes concluded. “And let me be completely clear, as long as I am Attorney General, no woman or doctor will be prosecuted under this draconian law in this state.”The Arizona Democrat has previously voiced her support for an abortion rights ballot measure in the state.
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