2022:
"I'm incredibly thrilled that we are going to have a great law that's already on the books. 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."-Kari Lake, June 24, 2022 and Feb. 5, 2022.
She even identifies the law by its number!
...1864 law that lawmakers carried over into a revised state code in 1901. The law was revived after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 [2022] overturned Roe v. Wade, the nearly 50-year-old case that established federally protected access to abortion. The law makes it illegal to induce a woman to miscarry, "unless it is necessary to save her life." Violators would face two to five years in prison.
Arizona’s Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich said he would enforce the law.
"ARS 13-3603 is back in effect," Brnovich tweeted June 29, 2022
In a June 29, 2022 Republican primary debate, Lake said she believes life begins at conception and that abortion pills should be illegal.
In her October [4, 2022] "Face the Nation" interview, Lake said she supports... legislation that allows abortions up to 15 weeks and seeks no change in that state law.
On Tuesday [April 9, 2024], Lake said she agreed with Trump's recent statement on the abortion issue. "I oppose today's ruling, and I am calling on [Democratic Gov.] Katie Hobbs and the state Legislature to come up with an immediate commonsense solution that Arizonans can support," Lake said in a statement.
Lake continued in her statement: "I am the only woman and mother in this race. I understand the fear and anxiety of pregnancy, and the joy of motherhood. I wholeheartedly agree with President Trump — this is a very personal issue that should be determined by each individual state and her people."
Lake added: "Ultimately, Arizona voters will make the decision on the ballot come November."
You got that right!
"This [the 1864 territorial law codified into state law in 1901] has no exception for rape or incest. It has no other exceptions, many of which we've even seen Republican candidates espouse in the past. It is the most extreme position and is now the law of the land in the state of Arizona. Unless something changes, it will be a big issue all the way from now till the election."--Paul Bentz, senior vice president of research and strategy at Arizona-based public affairs firm HighGround
In a March [?2024?] interview with NBC News, Lake seemed to shift her position on the abortion issue when she called the state's previous 15-week limit "a good law." In February 2022 while running for Arizona governor,[which she lost to Katie Hobbs] she said in a debate that she hoped the Supreme Court would "do the right thing" and overturn Roe v. Wade.
"We have a great law on the books right now. If that happens, we will be a state where we will not be taking the lives of our unborn anymore," Lake said about the 1864 ban potentially taking effect if Roe was overturned.
