Do you think it's because they're afraid of losing in 2024 or because some of them just got indicted for crimes they committed in the 2020 election wherein they knowingly conspired with the Trump campaign in order to illegally award the electors of their state to the big loser? And filmed it? Rhetorical questions.

This is the law that was written during the Civil War and only had one exception in it: abortions were permitted to save the life of the mother.

Who could in 1864 legally be a 10-year-old child.

Rape and incest victims weren't included.

Not fair to 9 year olds.

The three Republicans who voted with all of the Democrats did so for reasons of self-preservation.

Many of their fellow Republicans were mad as hell:

We're willing to kill infants to win an election. Put in that context, it's a little harder to stomach. Politics is important, but it's not worth our souls.

~ Scottsdale Rep. Alexander Kolodin

Somebody should seriously explain to these puritanical uneducated morons that a zygote/embryo/fetus isn't the equivalent of an "infant." It's been said many times that "you can't fix stupid," but somebody in Arizona should at least try.

On a related note, in a hearing at the Supreme Court today, Justice Alito (and others) repeatedly refers to a fetus as a "child" or "unborn child" as if an embryo/fetus is the equivalent of a "child" when it medically and demonstrably is not. The problem here is that medically uneducated legislators (and not doctors of medicine) are making decisions based on their religious beliefs and not actual medical science. Rant over.