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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Oct 4, 2022, 03:25 PM Oct 2022

Abortion rights a key issue in Arizona attorney general race

PHOENIX (AP) — Abortion is the top issue in the Arizona attorney general election pitting Republican Abraham Hamadeh against Democrat Kris Mayes.

Hamadeh, a former Maricopa County prosecutor and intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, promises to uphold Arizona's longstanding ban on abortion if elected in November. He is endorsed by former President Donald Trump for the Nov. 8 contest.

Mayes, an attorney and university professor who served for seven years on the Arizona Corporation Commission, says she supports abortion rights and doesn’t consider either the older ban or a more recent law to be constitutional.

“My opponent apparently is OK with forcing the victims of rape and incest to carry to term,” Mayes said last week during the only televised debate the pair will have during their contest.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/abortion-rights-a-key-issue-in-arizona-attorney-general-race/ar-AA12AIkJ

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Abortion rights a key issue in Arizona attorney general race (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2022 OP
This Civil-War era 'longstanding' ban was invalid for 50 years Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2022 #1
 

Hugh_Lebowski

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1. This Civil-War era 'longstanding' ban was invalid for 50 years
Tue Oct 4, 2022, 03:41 PM
Oct 2022

So really not the best terminology, but okay.

Perhaps M$N you could mention that the same body that imposed that so-called ban ... also said 10 years old is the Age of Consent in the territory (not even a state at the time)?

Or how about the fact that the intent of the law was actually to codify that men could not poison/give drugs to women with the purpose of causing a miscarriage, NOT to limit a woman's Right to Choose?

I didn't read the whole article, are those facts mentioned downstream?

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