{"id":51677,"date":"2024-05-02T15:27:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T05:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51677"},"modified":"2024-05-02T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T05:27:24","slug":"arizona-senate-votes-to-repeal-1864-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51677","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Senate votes to repeal 1864 abortion ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Legislators in Arizona&#8217;s upper house voted Wednesday to repeal an 1864 law banning abortion, a month after the state&#8217;s supreme court said the Civil War-era rule was valid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The turnaround was the latest development in the fraught US abortion debate, which is expected to play a huge role in this year&#8217;s presidential election, a likely rematch between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m glad to see the Senate answered my call and voted to repeal the 1864 total abortion ban,&#8221; the state&#8217;s Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While this is essential to protecting women&#8217;s health, it is just the beginning. I will never stop fighting for women&#8217;s reproductive freedoms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The western state jumped headlong into the divisive abortion rights debate last month when its supreme court ruled a hitherto obscure 160-year-old law was enforceable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislators in Arizona&#8217;s upper house voted Wednesday to repeal an 1864 law banning abortion, a month after the state&#8217;s supreme court said the Civil War-era rule was valid. The turnaround was the latest development in the fraught US abortion debate, which is expected to play a huge role in this year&#8217;s presidential election, a likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1360],"class_list":["post-51677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-arizona-senate-votes-to-repeal-1864-abortion-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}