How Arizona Became Ground Zero for the Abortion Rights Battle

Marking the first anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, first-year Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) issued a far-reaching executive order that strips the state’s fifteen local county attorneys of their authority to prosecute abortion related cases. Turns out elections have consequences.

The bombshell order doesn’t stop there. It directs all cases prosecutable under Arizona’s 15-week ban—which doesn’t allow exceptions for rape or incest—to be exclusively handled by the state’s attorney general, Kris Mayes, who like the governor is a pro-choice Democrat and has only been in office since January.

And there’s more. Mayes has made it clear she won’t be prosecuting women and their health providers for alleged violations of an 1864 abortion ban, or poorly written post-Roe bans.

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