Mon Feb 7, 2022 – 4:25 pm EST
PHOENIX (LifeSiteNews) — Republican lawmakers in Arizona advanced a bill last week which would ban abortions in the Grand Canyon State after 15 weeks gestation. The move comes ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s much-anticipated ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, which considers a similar 15-week abortion ban passed into law in Mississippi in 2019.
Pro-abortion and pro-life advocates alike have recognized that a decision favorable to Mississippi in the Dobbs case could see the federal “right to abortion” reconsidered or even overturned as early as this June.
Arizona legislature has advanced a bill banning abortion after 15 weeks, similar to Mississippi law currently before SCOTUS – https://t.co/kH44VFXOqf
— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) February 4, 2022
The Associated Press reported that Republicans on Arizona’s Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to advance the ban after hearing “from nearly a dozen people on both sides of the long-simmering debate” about abortion, including women who said they regretted aborting their unborn babies and others who argued that getting abortions had “saved their lives or futures.”
According to the AP, the lawmakers voted to advance the bill “in
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