Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) blamed Republicans for the state’s abortion ban, tracing it back to 2022’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision.
On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law banning abortions in nearly all cases, only making exceptions when the mother faces immediate life-threatening conditions. Despite denouncements from many of the state’s Republicans, Hobbs condemned them for the decision, laying the blame squarely at their feet.
“The fact is that some of the Republicans right now, who are saying that this decision went too far, are the same politicians who celebrated the Dobbs decision, which paved the way for this court ruling today,” she said in an interview with CNN. “And the speaker of the House and the Senate president both weighed in in this case with amicus brief, urging the court to do exactly what it did today.”
Hobbs and her administration have vowed to fight the ruling, with the governor urging the legislature to take action.
In a statement earlier Tuesday, Hobbs vowed to use everything in her power to prevent “radical extremists” from taking “control over women’s bodies.”