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Kari Lake among GOP members condemning state supreme court ruling as party flails over abortion politics in election year
Good morning US politics readers. The Arizona supreme court’s decision on Tuesday to let a 160-year-old abortion ban in the state go into effect pushed Republicans into a new political dilemma, coming as it did just a day after Donald Trump declared that abortion should be left to individual states.
First passed when Arizona was still a territory, the ban only permits abortions to save a patient’s life and does not have exceptions for rape or incest. “This decision cannot stand,” said Matt Gress, a Republican state representative.
I categorically reject rolling back the clock to a time when slavery was still legal and we could lock up women and doctors because of an abortion.
10am ET. USAID administrator Samantha Power will testify before the foreign relations committee.
10am. Joe Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, will welcome the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and his wife, Yuko Kishida, on the South Lawn.
12.30pm. Biden and Kishida will hold a joint press conference in the Rose Garden.
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