After Tuesday’s Arizona Supreme Court ruling essentially banning all abortions in the state, the state legislature adjourned on Wednesday despite attempts to get a motion to repeal the 1864 law up for a vote.
Hobbs, as well as other Democrats and a handful of Republicans, have called for the legislature to repeal the law in order to allow for the current 15-week law to remain in place for the time being. Many Democrats have also been critical of the 15-week abortion law, but have said that it’s preferable to the alternative, which only allows abortion if a mother’s health is at risk regardless of number of weeks into a pregnancy.
On Wednesday, Rep. Matt Gress, R-Phoenix, motioned to bring Rep. Stephanie Stahl-Hamilton's, D-Tucson, House Bill 2677 that would repeal the abortion ban law up for a vote by bypassing committee and going straight to a floor vote. However, another Republican then motioned to go to recess, which ended up passing through a voice vote.
However, this recess let to a tense moment on the House floor, in which Democratic lawmakers chanted phrases such as “Save women’s lives.”
