Kari Lake is reportedly trying desperately to get the 1864 pro-life law repealed after the Arizona Supreme Court just reinstated it.
It would seem she sees the law as an obstacle to her getting elected as a US senator.
Here’s more from Politico:
Senate hopeful Kari Lake is personally lobbying Arizona state lawmakers to repeal a Civil War-era law effectively outlawing abortion — the clearest sign yet that she fears the GOP’s hardline stance on the issue will hurt her campaign in the fall.
Lake, a former TV anchor turned MAGA darling, has spent months trying to project a more moderate position as she runs for Senate, particularly on abortion, which has dogged Republicans across the country. On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court made her job much more difficult when it ruled that the 1864 ban on abortion could be enforced, further igniting an already smoldering political issue.
Within a day, Lake was calling lawmakers in the GOP-controlled state House and Senate, urging them to repeal the law and offering her support, according to two people with knowledge of the conversations who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them.
Her effort to whip votes is a stark example of how eager Republicans are to neutralize abortion ahead of a close election in the state. Abortion has helped fuel Democratic down-ballot victories since the fall of Roe v. Wade, and Lake — who once praised the 1864 law — has now struck a different tone as she seeks to win an increasingly blue state.
Former President Donald Trump also said the ruling went too far, just days after suggesting abortion access be left to states. But the court ruling underscored the peril for Republicans of doing so and forced both Trump and Lake to play defense on an issue they’d rather not discuss.
Lake is so desperate to put distance between her and the state Supreme Court ruling that she’s just created a 5 minute video today expressing what seems like a very moderate view of abortion. It honestly sounds like she’s trying to appeal to pro-lifers and pro-baby-murders alike:
I really don’t like this “will of the people” argument. I get that Republicans like Trump and Lake are trying to neutralize the abortion issue in order to win and I do want them to win. But it seems like a very big compromise considering that we’re talking about murdering innocent babies. I can only hope that when they get elected, they will abandon their ‘will of the people’ arguments for a much more conservative position of outlawing abortion completely.