Thursday, April 11, 2024

Not all Arizona Republicans Are Liars, But Rep. Senate Candidate (and defeated Gov. candidate) Kari Lake is a liar

 

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.

 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. 

Kari Lake Backs G.O.P. Effort to Drop 1864 Abortion Law in Favor of 15-Week Ban

 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/politics/kari-lake-abortion-arizona.html