The Civil War raged and fortune
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.
New York judge William Thompson Howell wrote 500 pages that spanned provisions on dueling, accidental homicides by ax and age of consent that would govern the newly formed territory of fewer than 7,000 people. But tucked within the “Howell Code,” just after the section on duels, was an abortion law criminalizing the administering of “any medicinal substances ... with the intention to procure the miscarriage of any woman then being with child.”
That was 160 years ago. Last week, that same 1864 provision was resurrected by the Arizona Supreme Court, which upheld the near-total ban on abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest, a decision that quickly rippled across the political landscape of one of the nation’s most important presidential battleground states.
Related articles
Russell Brand announces plan to be baptised as it's 'an opportunity to leave the past behind'
Russell Brand has announced that he is 'taking the plunge' and is soon going to be baptised as it is2024-04-30Catholic officials in Brooklyn agree to an independent oversight of clergy sex abuse allegations
NEW YORK (AP) — An independent monitor will oversee the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn’s handlin2024-04-30Mother who promised Taylor Swift tickets to her daughter to celebrate finishing her A
A mother who promised Taylor Swift tickets to her daughter to celebrate finishing her A-levels is am2024-04-30Nathan MacKinnon races to career season, looks to power Colorado Avalanche on another title run
DENVER (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon is so quick and so forceful on the ice that sometimes there’s a crunc2024-04-30- A visitor tries a space helmet originating from "The Wandering Earth", a Chinese sci-fi bl2024-04-30
Was Dubai's apocalyptic storm SELF
The United Arab Emirates is today attempting to dry out after the heaviest rain ever recorded in the2024-04-30
atest comment