Gloria Rebecca Gomez

A day after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled to reinstate a near-total abortion ban from 1864, Republican lawmakers in the legislature blocked multiple efforts to repeal the law, saying they need more time to consider the repercussions of doing so.

Armed with hand-made posters and signature petition sheets, hundreds converged at a busy intersection near the heart of downtown Scottsdale on Sunday to voice their anger at Arizona’s return to a Civil War-era law banning nearly all abortions.

After House Republicans repeatedly thwarted a bid to repeal the ban, two Senate Republicans backed a push in that chamber to move the repeal forward

More than 100,000 Arizona residents are eligible to become U.S. citizens, and voter mobilization groups are counting on them to make a difference in the upcoming election.

On the same day that the Arizona House of Representatives voted to repeal an abortion ban from the 19th Century, a trio of anti-abortion Republicans launched an ethics complaint against top Democratic lawmakers who angrily protested an earlier move to block that vote, accusing them of intimidating GOP lawmakers and inciting a riot.

The ethics complaints against two lawmakers for protesting Az Republicans’ refusal to repeal an abortion ban should be thrown out, they say.

U.S. Senator Mark Kelly wants to codify abortion rights at the federal level to stabilize the procedure’s constantly changing legality in Arizona.

Arizona voters will get a chance to decide whether the state should have the ability to enforce immigration law after Republicans in the state legislature OK’d sending a proposal to the November ballot that seeks to grant local police officers and state judges the power to arrest and deport migrants.

Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban is dead since a law repealing it will take effect in September, 90 days after the legislative session ended.

A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling on the state’s attorney general to clarify the exception in Arizona’s 15-week abortion ban.