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President Joe Biden is promising that the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill next year will be one that codifies Roe v. Wade — if Democrats control enough seats in Congress for Biden to sign abortion protections into law.

Legal abortions that restarted in Arizona this week after a court blocked enforcement of a pre-statehood ban will be able to continue for at least five weeks while an appeals court considers the case.

Abortions can take place again in Arizona, at least for now, after an appeals court on Friday blocked the enforcement of a pre-statehood law that almost entirely criminalized the procedure.

Supporters of abortion rights are suing to keep an old Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions from being enforced.

A spokesman for Kari Lake says the Republican candidate for Arizona governor didn’t mean to suggest abortion should be legal.

A Phoenix abortion clinic has developed a way for patients who can end their pregnancy without running afoul of a law that bans most abortions.

New data released this month shows an overwhelming majority of Arizona voters want abortion to be legal. OH Predictive Insight’s September Arizona Public Opinion Pulse shows 91% of the state’s registered voters want abortion to be legally available in at least some cases, including rape, incest and the health of the mother and fetus.

Reproductive rights groups in Arizona are condemning last week’s court ruling allowing a pre-statehood abortion ban to go into effect that would effectively outlaw nearly all abortions. The law was blocked for five decades until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade this summer.

Planned Parenthood has asked an Arizona judge to put on hold a ruling that allowed prosecutors to enforce a Civil War-era law banning abortion in nearly all cases.

Arizona Democrats are vowing to fight for women’s rights after a court reinstated a law first enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in nearly all circumstances.