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Los Angeles (AFP) - Arizona's Democratic governor on Thursday signed a bill overturning an 1864 law banning abortion, a month after the state's supreme court said the Civil War-era rule was valid. Katie Hobbs' move caps a quick turnaround in the swing state, which is expected to play a crucial role in this year's presidential election between incumbent Joe Biden and Donald Trump. "I am proud to sign this bill and provide a moment of relief for Arizonans," said Hobbs in a video posted on social media. "We still have work to do." When the repeal comes into effect in the summer, terminations will...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Legislators in Arizona's upper house voted Wednesday to repeal an 1864 law banning abortion, a month after the state'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's presidential election, a likely rematch between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. "I'm glad to see the Senate answered my call and voted to repeal the 1864 total abortion ban," the state's Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs wrote on social media. "While this is essential to pr...
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Phoenix (AFP) - Piper decided she needed an abortion almost as soon as Arizona judges ruled an 1864 law banning the procedure could be enforced. Having only just found out she was pregnant, what she had really wanted was time to think, but that was a luxury she felt she could not afford. "The laws in Arizona are really dicey right now, so I wasn't sure what would be available to me," said Piper, who wanted to use a pseudonym to discuss her choice about one of the most divisive issues in America. Piper, 30, fell pregnant unexpectedly -- her partner told her he had undergone a vasectomy, but he ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Arizona has charged 18 people over a scheme to subvert the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump, the state's attorney general said Wednesday, with US media identifying the ex-president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani among those indicted. The felony indictments, which allege a conspiracy to award Arizona's slate of electors to the defeated real estate magnate, are the latest effort by a state to hold accountable those who backed Trump's false claim that he won the presidential vote. Arizona's Attorney General Kris Mayes said a grand jury had returned indictments on 11 local Republ...
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Tucson (AFP) - Democrats came out swinging at Donald Trump on the divisive issue of abortion on Friday, blaming him for unpopular restrictions they said are turning back the clock on women's rights ahead of November's presidential election. Days after Arizona became the latest state to declare almost all abortions illegal, Vice President Kamala Harris told a rally the populist former president was the architect of the ban, and warned worse was to come if he wins the White House. "Here's what a second Trump term looks like: More bans, more suffering and less freedom," Harris told supporters in...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The top court in Arizona on Tuesday ruled a 160-year-old near total ban on abortion is enforceable, thrusting the issue to the top of the agenda in a key US presidential election swing state. The ruling -- allowing for doctors to be jailed for up to five years -- is the latest in a series of state-level measures on the deeply divisive issue of reproductive rights, which is expected to play an outsize role in this November's contest between President Joe Biden and his Republican challenger Donald Trump. In a statement issued almost immediately after the Arizona news broke, B...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Arizona's Democratic governor said Friday she is sending National Guard soldiers to areas around the US border with Mexico, accusing President Joe Biden's government of "refusing to do its job" on migration. Katie Hobbs, whose state is a key target for Republicans, last week took fellow Democrat Biden to task after a major crossing was closed, purportedly to allow officials to concentrate their resources on stemming illegal migration. "Yet again, the federal government is refusing to do its job to secure our border and keep our communities safe," Hobbs said in her order Fr...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - New houses that rely on dwindling groundwater supplies around one of the United States' biggest cities are to be banned, officials said Thursday, in a sign of the strains that drought and climate change are causing across the US west. Water managers in Arizona say there is a significant shortfall in the Phoenix area, and that any more development in the fast-growing city must rely on other sources of water -- such as under-strain rivers. "Over a period of 100 years, the Phoenix (area) will experience 4.86 million acre-feet of unmet demand for groundwater supplies," the Ariz...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Donald Trump loyalist and prominent election denier Kari Lake has lost her bid to be governor of Arizona, US networks projected Monday, rounding out a difficult week for the former president as he readies a new run for the White House. Lake, a former TV anchor, had been seen as one of Trump's most reliable picks heading into the midterm elections, but her defeat caps a run of results that have raised doubts about the former president's place in the Republican Party. The projections by major US TV networks come after a week of intense scrutiny of the vote count in Arizona, w...
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Phoenix (AFP) - Officials in an Arizona county at the center of unsubstantiated right-wing claims of fraud during the US midterm election said Wednesday there was no criminality involved in isolated problems with voting machines. Accusations of rigging mushroomed on social media platforms and were amplified by former president Donald Trump after Maricopa County reported a minority of tabulation machines were not working during Tuesday's vote. "With regard to comments like 'criminal' or 'rigged,' there's absolutely no basis for that statement," Bill Gates, chairman of the Maricopa County Board ...
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