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Arizona’s top court allows near-total 1864 abortion ban to go into effect

An empty car park outside Planned Parenthood in Tempe, Arizona [File: Matt York/The Associated Press]

In 1864, the territory of Arizona in the United States passed a law that criminalised nearly all abortions.

Arizona was not even a state at the time of the law’s passage. But now, 160 years later, its state Supreme Court has ruled the near-total ban can go into effect in 14 days.

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