Arizona's Controversial Abortion Law A Step Back in Time

But the big news that we've got to talk about with Arizona is that they have learned how to time travel At least legislatively Because yesterday Arizona reinstated an abortion law that was first created fifty years before Arizona was even a state From a time before women could vote and even the prospect of the three-fifths compromise for a lot of people was maybe a little bit too much But that's also because the Civil War was actively playing out But then after the law got reinstated a lot of stuff happened So let's break it down Because everything first kicked off yesterday when the Arizona Supreme Court which is composed entirely of Republican appointees ruled four to two to uphold an the only exception being when the mother's life is in danger and not in cases of rape or incest And also with this providers who administer abortions not only could face fines but a prison sentence of two to five years Right and all this marked a major change from Arizona's current abortion law which notably was enacted two years ago after Roe was reversed and it banned the procedure after fifteen weeks and it banned the procedure after fifteen weeks But and it's one of the key things here that fifteen-week ban didn't explicitly repeal the eighteen sixty-four law And that's something the state Supreme Court justices pointed to in their decision noting that the twenty twenty-two law also didn't establish a right to abortion Because the reversal of parole took away the federal right to abortion the Arizona Supreme Court argued that there was nothing in federal or state law that prevented the the the law is not going to take effect immediately