{"id":2235302,"date":"2024-05-02T08:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T12:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-arizona-republicans-just-joined-democrats-to-repeal-1864-law\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T12:49:02","slug":"breaking-arizona-republicans-just-joined-democrats-to-repeal-1864-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-arizona-republicans-just-joined-democrats-to-repeal-1864-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Republicans team up with Democrats to repeal a law from 1864"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-arizona-republicans-just-joined-democrats-to-repeal-1864-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2235302&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Summary: Arizona state Senators Shawnna Bolick and T.J. Shope, in collaboration\u200b with Senate Democrats, passed a repeal to end an 1864 abortion ban law, with \u200dGov. \u2062Katie Hobbs set\u200c to \u2062sign. The move, perceived as politically strategic, is crucial in a state where \u2064abortion debates stir Democratic voter support and GOP division. The repeal signifies a\u200b milestone in Arizona&#8217;s\u200b legislative history, reflecting the contentious nature of abortion \u2062laws at the forefront of political\u2064 discourse.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 2, 2024 at 4:02am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing that Democrats can always rely on squeamish Republicans to do, it\u2019s to sign onto bad legislation because GOP lawmakers think it will help moderate their image in an election year.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like Lucy Van Pelt, Charlie Brown and the football: No matter how many times Republicans line up to kick the pigskin of moderation, they\u2019ll have it pulled away from them and get browbeaten with the tag of \u201cextremism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When they do, remember the names of Arizona state Sens. Shawnna Bolick and T.J. Shope. In one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-more-votes-than-voters-in-key-swing-states\/\" title=\"Trump: More Votes Than Voters in Key Swing States\">key swing states<\/a> in November\u2019s presidential election, those two Republicans lined up with state Senate Democrats to pass a repeal of an abortion ban through the GOP-controlled upper chamber, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/01\/us\/arizona-senate-house-abortion-ruling.html?nl=from-the-times&#038;regi_id=230935092&#038;segment_id=165353\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This effectively marks the end of any chance the legislation would survive, since Democrat Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has announced she will sign the bill as soon as it ends up on her desk on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-14 vote on Wednesday evening was called \u201ca moment of Arizona history\u201d by Democrat state Sen. Anna Hernandez, who introduced the repeal vote earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The bill abrogated an 1864 law that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/az-supreme-court-rules-pre-roe-abortion-ban-back-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned abortion<\/a> in the state with no exception for rape or incest; three weeks ago, the state Supreme Court ruled 4-2 that the law \u2014 passed by the first Arizona Territorial Legislature decades before Arizona became a state in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/us-states\/arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1912<\/a> \u2014 could now be enforced since 1) it was still on the books and 2) Roe v. Wade had been overturned.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to see why Sens. Bolick and Shope decided to bow to pressure and vote with Democrats to send the repeal to Hobbs\u2019 desk: \u201cThe issue has galvanized Democratic voters and energized a campaign to put an abortion-rights ballot measure before Arizona voters in November,\u201d the Times noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the right, it created a rift between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-remember-the-48th-annual-march-for-life\/\" title=\"Americans remember the 48th annual March for Life\">anti-abortion activists<\/a> who want to keep the law in place and Republican politicians who worry about the political backlash that could be prompted by support of a near<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-lives-matter-arkansas-gov-signs-near-total-abortion-ban-that-supporters-hope-will-force-scotus-to-revisit-roe-v-wade\/\" title=\"\u2018All Lives Matter\u2019: Arkansas Gov. Signs Near-Total Abortion Ban That Supporters Hope Will Force SCOTUS To Revisit Roe v. Wade\">-total abortion ban<\/a> with no exceptions for rape or incest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Translation: Don\u2019t get called \u201cextremists\u201d in a state where the presidential and U.S. Senate races will be close.<\/p>\n<p>Bolick, whose husband is on the Supreme Court and voted to uphold the law, tried to have it both ways when she gave a floor speech before casting her vote. She called the law draconian while railing against the anywhere\/any time\/any reason abortion agenda being pushed by the Democratic Party and Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>Bolick, the Times reported, delivered a \u201clong, deeply personal speech describing her own three challenging pregnancies, including one that ended with an abortion procedure in her first trimester because the fetus was not viable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould Arizona\u2019s pre-Roe law have allowed me to have this medical procedure even though my life wasn\u2019t in danger?\u201d she asked, then adding: \u201cWe should be pushing for the maximum protection for unborn children that can be sustained \u2026 I side with saving more babies\u2019 lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without being intimately familiar with the medical condition of Sen. Bolick\u2019s unborn child, it\u2019s impossible to say; what she posited was hardly a rhetorical question. And furthermore, it\u2019s not like Democrats or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/heartland-attorney-general-files-suit-planned-parenthood-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> won\u2019t still be using this as a cudgel, since the law now defaults to a separate piece of 2022 legislation that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks, again without exceptions for rape and incest.<\/p>\n<p>The same people who are temporarily lionizing Sen. Bolick for being a Good Republican\u2122 for casting her lot with Democrats today are going to be tearing her to bits once the current law exits the books 90 days after the state Legislature adjourns for summer break.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, <i>any<\/i> restriction has been deemed too extreme by the left, and I can predict with near certainty she\u2019ll soon find her emotional remarks being used callously as an object lesson in \u201cRepublican hypocrisy\u201d by an abortion-mad left that views anything short of banning fourth-trimester terminations as an abomination. (And, as we learned in the case of former Virginia Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/va-gov-northam-used-good-friday-sign-radical-pro-abortion-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ralph Northam<\/a>, even that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mlks-niece-calls-ralph-northam-apologize-agreeing-kill-little-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">isn\u2019t fixed in stone<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, we shouldn\u2019t just put all the blame on Sens. Bolick and Shope, however. Even presumptive GOP presidential nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-trump-issues-official-position-on-abortion-and-pro-lifers-dont-seem-to-happy-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> had signaled the 1864 bill should be repealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be straightened out and as you know, it\u2019s all about states\u2019 rights,\u201d he told reporters April 10, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-abortion-arizona-law-florida-ban-7cdd6d2e3c320a89ec7a7c037824e7cd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be straightened out, and I\u2019m sure that the governor and everybody else are going to bring it back into reason and that\u2019ll be taken care of, I think, very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is all done under the misapprehension that, if the Republican Party gives an inch on the protection of unborn life, the Democrats will lose some of their rhetorical ammo.<\/p>\n<p>This is never how it happens, however.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the vote, the Times covered some of the sturm und drang between pro-life and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-tech-companies-mobilize-to-disrupt-texas-abortion-law\/\" title=\"Big Tech Companies Mobilize To Disrupt Texas Abortion Law\">pro-abortion protesters<\/a> outside of the Arizona State Capitol as the vote was taking place.<\/p>\n<p>After one 16-year-old male protester said that abortion was \u201cmurder,\u201d according to the Times, a woman responded thusly: \u201cYou\u2019re standing here as a male, but you will never have to make that decision,\u201d she said. \u201cI am totally pro-life, but why can\u2019t we meet in the middle? Government shouldn\u2019t govern our bodies. Government has nothing to do with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s \u201ctotally pro-life,\u201d but doesn\u2019t believe government should tell any woman to do with her body \u2014 or, by extension, the body inside her body. This is the position of the modern Democratic Party, and there is no other acceptable answer. To say otherwise is to be on the \u201cfar right,\u201d even though the majority of Americans agree that government needs to be involved with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/poll-supermajority-american-voters-oppose-abortion-past-12-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopping abortion at some point<\/a>, usually very early in pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>And, lo and behold, Arizona state House Minority Whip Rep. Nancy Gutierrez, a Democrat, said \u201cwe are not finished. We still have an initiative to get on the November ballot that will codify abortion access in our Arizona Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Capitulation and retreat will not convince voters that the Democrat line about Republicans being abortion \u201cextremists\u201d is wrong. Instead, it\u2019s time the right started pointing out who the true extremists are: State Rep. Gutierrez and her ilk throughout the country, who seem to believe the only impediment to abortion should be birth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said that to the founder of The Western Journal, Floyd Brown.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Gen. 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Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-leaves-for-delaware-as-russians-prepare-to-take-kyiv\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Leaves for Delaware as Russians Prepare to Take Kyiv\">enjoys spending time<\/a> with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties). <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Morristown, New Jersey <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  Catholic University of America <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English, Spanish <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  American Politics, World Politics, Culture <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a commentary by C. Douglas Golden on May 2, 2024, at 4:02 am, it&#8217;s highlighted how Democrats count on hesitant Republicans to support unfavorable laws. 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