AZ-SEN: Kari Lake is scrambling to call Arizona lawmakers after abortion ban ruling

[RandySF]

Senate hopeful Kari Lake is personally lobbying Arizona state lawmakers to repeal a Civil War-era law effectively outlawing abortion — the clearest sign yet that she fears the GOP’s hardline stance on the issue will hurt her campaign in the fall.

Lake, a former TV anchor turned MAGA darling, has spent months trying to project a more moderate position as she runs for Senate, particularly on abortion, which has dogged Republicans across the country. On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court made her job much more difficult when it ruled that the 1864 ban on abortion could be enforced, further igniting an already smoldering political issue.

Within a day, Lake was calling lawmakers in the GOP-controlled state House and Senate, urging them to repeal the law and offering her support, according to two people with knowledge of the conversations who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them.

Her effort to whip votes is a stark example of how eager Republicans are to neutralize abortion ahead of a close election in the state. Abortion has helped fuel Democratic down-ballot victories since the fall of Roe v. Wade, and Lake — who once praised the 1864 law — has now struck a different tone as she seeks to win an increasingly blue state.




https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/11/kari-lake-arizona-abortion-ban-00151835

[LiberalFighter]

1. What will stop them from reversing it later?

[sheshe2]

2. She was for it before she was against it.

Kari Lake denounces Arizona abortion ban that she once supported
Far-right US Senate candidate joins Republicans who have decried state supreme court ruling but who blocked appeal effort

Lake, an unsuccessful candidate for governor in the state and election denier, expressed her support for the law in 2022 after the supreme court voted to overturn Roe v Wade.

“I’m incredibly thrilled that we are going to have a great law that’s already on the books,” she said in a June 2022 radio interview. “I believe it’s ARS 13-3603, so it will prohibit abortion in Arizona except to save the life of a mother. And I think we’re going to be paving the way and setting course for other states to follow.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/11/kari-lake-arizona-abortion-reversal

Hypocrite. She supported this and now is back peddling.

[Cha]

3. Will they do it? Hope Lake gets Backlash from

Both Sides .. Anti & Pro

[marble falls]

4. This is rich, do they try to attract moderates by pissing off the extreme antiabortion element ...

... or double down on abortion for the deplorables and chase away any thought of picking up any moderates.

They've lost the election either way. Imagine that: taking Reagan's issue cleaving strategy on abortion and using it on the MAGAs, and having it be pro-abortion.

[Vinca]

5. Amazing how fast they can change their positions. Poor Kari, though. The Internet still has

a nice collection of her videos proclaiming love for the Lincoln-era law.