Kari Lake almost worked for group supporting Arizona abortion law she now opposes
Daily Kos -

The political earthquake unleashed Tuesday by Arizona’s Supreme Court—ruling that the state’s anachronistic, draconian 1864 abortion ban could now go into effect—didn’t arise in a vacuum. It was the product of a multi-year effort by the anti-abortion lobby and its allies in the then-Republican Arizona Attorney General’s office, who initially argued that the ancient law should take precedence over the state’s current 15-week abortion ban.  As reported in 2022 by Stephanie Innes, writing for the...

In related news

  • 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 effortKari Lake, the far-right US Senate candidate and Donald Trump ally, denounced Arizona’s abortion ban on Thursday, arguing that the strict legislation she previously praised does not have the support of the state’s residents.“This total ban on abortion the Arizona supreme court just ruled on is out of line with where the people of this state are,” she said in a video on...

  • Kari Lake gets flack from both sides on abortion as she navigates Arizona law

    TUCSON, Ariz. — Republican Senate hopeful Kari Lake took criticism from both flanks of the abortion debate during a visit to the University of Arizona Thursday evening, as she and other candidates navigate the fallout from this week’s state Supreme Court decision upholding the state’s Civil War-era abortion ban. Lake’s flip-flop on the law — which she called a “great law” in 2022 but now opposes and is pushing fellow Republicans to repeal — illustrates the tricky political position she and other...

  • Kari Lake claims she opposes Arizona's near-total abortion ban—the same one she cheered two years ago.

    Shortly after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a Civil War-era, near-total ban on abortion on Tuesday, Republican Senate hopeful and former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake blasted the decision as “out of step with Arizonans.”  She declined, however, to explain the apparent about-face. Two years ago on the gubernatorial campaign trail, Lake eagerly praised the 1864 […]