The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold: This era produced Arizona’s abortion ban
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The near-total abortion ban resurrected last week by the Arizona Supreme Court dates to 1864.
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How conspiring doctors, questionable tonics, and twisted patriotism led to Arizona’s Civil War-era abortion ban that was just upheld in court and could soon be enforced.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tasked one man to create the legal code for Arizona, almost 50 years before the territory became a state.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tasked one man to create the legal…
