Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs criticized the state’s reinstated 1864 abortion ban during an interview on “The View.”
Hobbs said the ban, which was passed by 27 men, now controls millions of Arizona women’s lives.
“This is absolutely outrageous, and, you know, we can talk about how crazy it is that a law passed in 1864 by 27 men now controls the lives of millions of Arizona women, but I want to talk about the effect that’s going to have on women in our state,” Hobbs said.
She expressed concern that women in the state will die under the ban.
Hobbs personally experienced a miscarriage treated as an abortion, and said doctors may now be criminalized for providing that common treatment.
She added, “I, myself, have personally experienced a miscarriage, losing a pregnancy by miscarriage and the treatment for that is a procedure that is also an abortion, and that is a common treatment and how outrageous is it that if you have this terrible thing happen, that doctors can’t treat you because they’ll be criminalized for it now?”
She urged legislators to repeal the law, saying it is not right for Arizonans and women will die under the ban.
Hobbs blamed former President Donald Trump and said overturning Roe v. Wade was political opportunism, calling the ban another mess she has to clean up from his administration in Arizona.
Hobbs said, “They need to repeal this law. It is the right thing to do for Arizonans. I know that Arizona women will die under this ban and they need to get their stuff together and just repeal it.”
She said, “I am pretty tired of cleaning up Donald Trump’s messes in Arizona. This is really nothing but political opportunism coming from these folks who wanted this. This is what they wanted when they worked to overturn Roe v. Wade.”
