Originally published at: Arizona's Attorney General cited an 158-year-old anti-abortion law: older than Jim Crow and age of consent laws | Boing Boing
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These are the time’s reactionary politicians, and their supporters want to return.
Absolutely. Anyone who thinks that the fascists and Nat-Cs will stop at denying women their reproductive rights is fooling himself.
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“All laws of the Territory of Arizona now in force, not repugnant to this Constitution, shall remain in force…”
Now in force… shall remain in force seems like a key part of that. They clearly haven’t been in force for 50 years, so it’s not like there’s a continuity of the law here… If they get away with this, expect all those other terrible territorial laws to suddenly pop back up, too. Loving v Virginia seems on shaky ground with this court, after all…
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Putting a five-year cap on the sentencing would seem to indicate that even the 19th-Century zealots recognized abortion as a lesser offense than murder, which is how modern theocrats characterize it.
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