Abortion rights activists set their sights on Arizona after Ohio win
Thousands of protesters march around the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on June 24, 2022, after the Supreme Court decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. | Ross D. Franklin/AP PhotoA top progressive group wants to build on the huge success Democrats are having with abortion-related ballot initiatives — this time in Arizona.
A ballot initiative in Arizona would increase the “likelihood that pro-choice voters turn out to vote, boosting Democratic candidates up and down the ticket in a state with numerous, must-win competitive races at the Presidential, Senate, House, and state legislative level,” the memo continues.environment, where the threat feels real to people, and they are responding accordingly,” Mari Urbina, the acting co-executive director of the group, said in a brief interview.
Arizona is expected to again be among a handful of states that could decide the presidential election. President Joe Biden narrowly carried the state in 2020, the first Democrat to do so since Bill Clinton in 1996. Biden stopped there on Tuesday to designate the land surrounding the Grand Canyon as a national monument that wouldThe state will have a crucial Senate race and a pair of battleground House districts.
Indivisible cited polling it conducted recently with Data for Progress to argue that Arizona “has a unique and strong pro-choice streak that crosses party lines, motivating Democrats and muddying the waters for many Republican voters,” suggesting it could make the difference in close contests next year.finds abortion rights remains top of mind for voters. Sixty-four percent of adults said they disapprove of the court’s overturning of, including 50 percent of adults who “strongly disapprove.
Abortion in Arizona is currently prohibited after 15 weeks of pregnancy, although in 2022 then-Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich argued unsuccessfully after the Supreme Court’s ruling that a 19th-century, pre-statehood law banning the procedure almost entirelyArizonans tried and failed to get an initiative codifying abortion rights on the ballot after the fall of.
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