Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is trying to protect abortionists in her state who kill unborn babies in elective abortions.
On Thursday, the Democrat governor signed an executive order that revokes local authorities’ ability to prosecute abortion violations and puts the power solely in the hands of pro-abortion Attorney General Kris Mayes, according to CBS 5 News.
“In her zeal for abortion, Gov. Hobbs has exceeded her authority as governor,” said Cathi Herrod, Esq., president of the Center for Arizona Policy. “The law does not allow her to strip county attorneys of their clear enforcement authority as granted in various Arizona laws.”
Herrod urged the governor to work with people on both sides of the debate to serve pregnant women in need so they don’t feel like aborting their unborn babies is their only option.
But Hobbs is focused on promoting more abortions instead.
The governor argued that the Attorney General’s Office should be the only authority to make decisions about enforcing abortion restrictions. That way “differences in interpretation or application of the law by different county attorneys do not chill, deter or restrict access to lawful abortion care,” Hobbs said.
“I will not allow extreme and out of touch politicians to get in the way of the fundamental right Arizonans have to make decisions about their own bodies and futures. I will continue to fight to expand access to safe and legal abortion in any way that I can,” she said in a statement.
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Right now, Arizona law prohibits most abortions after 15 weeks. The state also has a pre-Roe v. Wade abortion ban that would protect all unborn babies, but it currently is blocked. The state Supreme Court is considering the case.
But if the attorney general is the only person tasked with enforcing the law and she refuses, abortionists could continue to kill unborn babies in abortions without fear.
In a statement, Attorney General Mayes praised the governor’s order and bashed pro-life advocates as “extremists [who] will stop at nothing in their attempts to impose their radical beliefs on the rest of the country.” She defended killing unborn babies in elective abortions, calling abortion “health care” and a “fundamental right” even though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled otherwise in its historic Dobbs v. Jackson ruling.
Hobbs’ new order attempts to expand abortions in other ways, too. She created a new Governor’s Advisory Council on Protecting Reproductive Freedom to make recommendations on how to expand access to “sexual and reproductive health care,” including elective abortions.
Here’s more from the report:
The [governor’s] order also includes restricting state agencies from assisting in any investigation relating to providing, assisting, seeking or receiving reproductive healthcare unless it is criminal or by a court order; refusing extradition requests from other states that want to prosecute someone who comes to Arizona for abortion-related services; and establishes a council that will research and recommend expansions to sexual and reproductive healthcare in Arizona.
A 1864 state law prohibits the killing of unborn babies in abortions except if the mother’s life is at risk. Abortionists who provide, supply or administer abortions, abortion drugs or abortion devices to women for the purpose of killing an unborn baby can face two to five years in prison.
If enforced, the law has the potential to save as many as 36 babies from abortion every day in Arizona.
Last summer, the abortion ban went into effect temporarily after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, but the Planned Parenthood abortion chain sued and Arizona courts blocked the legislation in October.
Now, state lawmakers, pro-life advocates, doctors and leaders of other states are urging the Arizona Supreme Court to reverse the ruling.
