Post-Roe, states struggle with conflicting abortion bans
Two people stand on the steps of the Idaho State Capitol Building, during a protest, in downtown Boise, Idaho on May 3, 2022. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade has legal advocates, prosecutors and residents of red states facing a legal morass created by decades of often conflicting anti-abortion legislation. Idaho has nearly three-dozen anti-abortion laws dating back to 1973, and Attorney General Lawrence Wasden's office says he's giving them all a close look to see which might be enforceable now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. (Sarah A. Miller/Idah…
By REBECCA BOONE and CLAIRE RUSH
Associated Press
BOISE— In Arizona, Republicans are fighting among themselves over whether a 121-year-old anti-abortion law from the pre-statehood Wild West days, when Arizona was still a frontier mining territory, should be enforced over a 2022 version....
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