The Arizona Senate has voted to repeal a law that would prohibit performing abortions except in cases where it is necessary to save the mother’s life.
The text of the law reads, “A person who provides, supplies or administers to a pregnant woman, or procures such woman to take any medicine, drugs or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless it is necessary to save her life, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than two years nor more than five years.”
The state Senate voted 16-14 in favor of repealing the law. Two Republicans, T.J. Shope and Shawnna Bolick, voted with Democrats to support repeal,
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