“Arizona lawmakers seemed poised on Wednesday to repeal an abortion ban that first became law when Abraham Lincoln was president and a half-century before women won the right to vote,” the New York Times reports. “The expected vote in the Arizona State Senate could be the culmination of a fevered effort to repeal the law that has made abortion a central focus of Arizona’s politics.” “The issue has galvanized Democratic voters and energized a campaign to put an abortion-rights ballot measure before Arizona voters in November.
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