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Arizona's top court ruled that a strict 160-year-old ban on abortion may be enforced.

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[–] Son_of_dad 4 points 7 months ago

"the government of today has no right telling us how to live our lives, because the government of 200 years ago already did!"

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 1 points 7 months ago

Y'all remember madlibs right?

There's gotta be some ancient Babylonian precedent to allow Judges to be _____ by their _____ until ____ oozes from their ______ and then their spouses have to ________ the _______ until they also ________ into a Starbucks cup and ________ with it.

[–] sylver_dragon 1 points 7 months ago

Cynically, while being terrible in the short term, this may be a long term, positive outcome. Arizona is going to be an important state, electorally, for the 2024 Election. It's one of the few States which can reasonably be called a "toss-up". While it has been trending Democratic in the last few elections, that is not a guaranteed outcome. However, a total abortion ban and a ballot initiative to fix it may be really good at driving Democratic and Democratic Leaning voters to the poll. While there, they could well hand the State's 11 Electoral Votes to Biden as well as sending a Democrat to the US Senate. This is why:

Some Arizona Republicans also expressed concerns about the ruling.
Kari Lake, a close ally of Donald Trump and a Republican candidate for the state's seat in the US Senate, said she opposed the decision.

Polling has her just about tied with the Democratic candidate (Ruben Gallego). Anything which increases Democratic turnout is bad for her.