Arizona governor signs bill repealing 1864 abortion ban

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00:00A historic moment, as on Thursday, Arizona's Governor Katie Hobbs signed a bill to repeal

00:07a ban on most abortions in the state.

00:10A ban that was passed by 27 men before Arizona was even a state.

00:16A time when America was at war over the right to own slaves.

00:20A time before women could even vote.

00:23Today, we are doing what 23 governors and 55 legislatures refused to do, and I am so

00:30proud to be the ones that got this job done.

00:33The bill was passed by the Arizona Senate in a 16-14 vote on Wednesday, after two Republican

00:39Senators crossed party lines in order to vote in favor of repealing the ban.

00:45The law, established in 1864, bars abortion from the moment of conception, with no exceptions

00:52for rape or incest.

00:54It was revived last month after Arizona's top court ruled the ban could be enforced

00:59following the U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

01:04Since that reversal ended the constitutional right to abortion, it has been left up to

01:08states to individually decide the issue.

01:11For this Democratic state representative, the repeal marks an important step in the

01:16right direction.

01:18And here we are in the present, looking forward to the future.

01:23The ways in which we need to continue to push and to move our state so that it meets the

01:31needs and the desires of the people of Arizona.

01:35The reproductive rights battle is taking place in a presidential election year, with Arizona

01:40considered a key swing state, where voters are likely to play a decisive role in who

01:45wins the White House.

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