President Joe Biden condemned the Arizona Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday that upheld an 1864 law banning most abortions in the state.
The law only makes exceptions for abortions in which the mother faces immediate life-threatening conditions while mandating a prison sentence of between two and five years for a healthcare provider who performs the procedure unlawfully.
“Millions of Arizonans will soon live under an even more extreme and dangerous abortion ban, which fails to protect women even when their health is at risk or in tragic cases of rape or incest,” Biden said in a statement soon after the ruling was announced.
Biden has long considered himself a champion of “women’s right to choose” on the topic of abortion, which he reiterated in his statement.
“This cruel ban was first enacted in 1864 — more than 150
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