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The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed a law from 1864 that makes carrying out an abortion a serious crime. What does this mean? The decision, with a vote of 4-2, dismissed attempts to ban abortions after 15 weeks and effectively makes the medical procedure nearly completely against the law in the state. The law dates back to the time of the Civil War and was passed many years before Arizona became a state in 1912. The…

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Vice President Harris will visit Arizona on Friday “to continue her leadership in the fight for reproductive freedoms,” the White House announced just after the state’s Supreme Court upheld a near-total abortion ban. The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an 1864 law that made performing an abortion a felony, including only a narrow exception to…