Arizona state senators successfully passed a measure to repeal the state’s near-total 1864 abortion ban following a heated and emotional voting session.

Two Republican state senators, Shawnna Bolick and T.J. Shope, joined Democrats in a 16-14 vote in favor of repealing the measure. The House passed an identical bill in the lower chamber last week, also with several Republican crossover votes.

Lawmakers in the Arizona house on Wednesday voted to repeal the state’s 1864 abortion ban after the law was upheld by the state supreme court earlier this month.

The Arizona house passed the repeal bill by a 32–28 margin, with three Republican state representatives joining state Democrats in voting for the measure. The latest vote, which was the third attempt to pass a repeal, ended a weekslong stalemate in the Arizona legislature between Republicans and Democrats. The bill now heads to the Arizona senate, where lawmakers are expected to vote on it next Wednesday.

The women of the Supreme Court—including conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett—tore into a lawyer for Idaho on Wednesday over the state’s law allowing for abortions only when a woman is at imminent risk of death.

Lawyers for the state and the federal government were before the court to debate whether Idaho’s law contradicts a federal law requiring hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment to patients in emergency condition.

One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.

Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal.

The Trump campaign is downplaying the importance of abortion in the battleground state of Arizona, claiming the issue is a top concern for mostly Democratic voters after the state Supreme Court upheld a 19th-century near-total ban on abortion.

After conducting an internal poll from April 7-11 of 400 likely general election voters in the Grand Canyon State, Trump’s top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, concluded that abortion is less important for Republican and independent voters, according to an internal campaign memo.

Former President Donald Trump took a hypothetical political debate about abortion out of the conversation of the 2024 presidential race.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee announced Monday morning that he thinks abortion is a state matter, meaning he will not pursue a national abortion ban if elected president later this year. It’s understandable, but Trump should pursue some form of an abortion reduction reduction agenda if he wins.