{"id":243348,"date":"2021-04-15T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=243348"},"modified":"2021-04-15T00:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T05:11:40","slug":"bill-discriminatory-abortions-fails-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bill-discriminatory-abortions-fails-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill banning discriminatory abortions fails in Arizona as pro-lifers vow to try again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A bill that would have outlawed abortions based on a preborn child’s disability has failed in the Arizona Senate. SB 1457<\/a> failed in a razor-thin vote, notably after one Republican joined Democrats in voting against it.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, SB 1457 passed the Arizona House<\/a> after Rep. Regina Cobb agreed to reduce the penalty for doctors found to have committed eugenic abortions. Originally, abortionists would face up to seven years, as violating the law would have been a Class 3 felony, but it was downgraded to a Class 6 felony instead, which carries a lighter sentence \u2014 no longer than 18 months. “It spread too broad of an ad on the genetic abnormalities and it also gave such a restriction on our universities, we would have been in a serious bind,\u201d Cobb told 12News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After those changes were made, the bill was passed on to the Senate, where it failed.<\/p>\n

Senator Tyler Pace told the Arizona Republic<\/a> that he is pro-life but couldn’t support the bill. “I pride myself on trying to make our bills better, so long as I can stomach or support the underlying issue. In all honesty with you, that’s what’s made this bill so hard,” he said, adding, “I’m not supportive of abortion in many of its ways. But I get very hesitant when we get into the specifics like this, especially in health care.”<\/p>\n

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