Tornado Alley (PROG)

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And in Arizona, women find that their rights now reside somewhere 17 years before the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and it’s already past high noon.

In Arizona, I am sure there are many “decent, normal people who do volunteer work, help shovel after a storm, look out for family and neighbors.” Unfortunately, those same people elected a state supreme court that, on Monday, dropped the state back into the Zone of Totality about half-past Sherman’s March. From the Washington Post:

Under the 1864 territorial law, which went into effect 48 years before Arizona became a state, anyone who administers an abortion could face a mandatory prison sentence of two to five years. That ban could compel Arizona’s licensed abortion clinics to ramp down dramatically or shutter—though it’s unclear how the decision will be enforced. The question of abortion legality landed before Arizona’s Supreme Court after the state’s former attorney general, a Republican, asked the justices to restore the 160-year-old ban, setting off a litigation battle with Planned Parenthood.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60445235/arizona-abortion-ban/