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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn Arizona judge helped revive an 1864 abortion law. His lawmaker wife joined Democrats to repeal it
An Arizona judge helped revive an 1864 abortion law. His lawmaker wife joined Democrats to repeal itWhen it was Shawnna Bolicks turn to speak, the words tumbled out of her for 20 minutes. The conservative lawmaker was in the middle of a heated debate in the Republican-led Arizona Senate on a bill to repeal an 1864 law banning nearly all abortions.
Democrats needed at least one more vote from the right to advance the bill.
Bolick, head hung low and tripping over her words, described her three difficult pregnancies, including one that ended in miscarriage. She said she wouldn't have got through it "without the moral support of my husband.
Her husband, Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick, was part of the majority that voted in April to restore the near-total ban.
Observers in the gallery jeered as the senator declared herself pro-life." Only in the final moments of her speech did her intention become clear.
I am here to protect more babies, she said. I vote aye.
Democrats needed at least one more vote from the right to advance the bill.
Bolick, head hung low and tripping over her words, described her three difficult pregnancies, including one that ended in miscarriage. She said she wouldn't have got through it "without the moral support of my husband.
Her husband, Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick, was part of the majority that voted in April to restore the near-total ban.
Observers in the gallery jeered as the senator declared herself pro-life." Only in the final moments of her speech did her intention become clear.
I am here to protect more babies, she said. I vote aye.
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An Arizona judge helped revive an 1864 abortion law. His lawmaker wife joined Democrats to repeal it (Original Post)
In It to Win It
May 15
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Hekate
(91,454 posts)1. The great awakening has come for a whole lot of conservative women
TSExile
(2,848 posts)2. Good!!
At least someone out of the Grand Old Patriarchy has seen the light.
Fla Dem
(24,113 posts)3. Ha! She's no Handmaiden!!!!