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Wednesday 10 april 2024
Arizona can enforce an 1864 law criminalizing nearly all abortions,

court says

JACQUES BILLEAUD productive rights is not over
Associated Press in Arizona.”
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Currently, 14 states are en-
can soon enforce a long- forcing bans on abortion
dormant law criminalizing at all stages of pregnancy,
all abortions except when a with limited exceptions. Two
mother’s life is at stake, the states ban the procedure
state Supreme Court ruled once cardiac activity can
Tuesday, opening the door be detected, which is about
to prosecuting doctors who six weeks into pregnancy
perform the procedures. and often before women
Under the decision, a long- realize they’re pregnant.
dormant law that predates Nearly every ban has been
Arizona’s statehood would challenged with a lawsuit.
take effect. It provides no Courts have blocked en-
exceptions for rape or in- forcing some restrictions,
cest, but allows abortions if including bans throughout
a mother’s life is in danger. pregnancy in Utah and
Enforcement can take ef- Wyoming.
fect in 14 days. In Arizona, an older state Su-
The ruling suggests doctors preme Court decision had
can be prosecuted for per- blocked enforcing the 1864
forming the procedure, but law shortly after the U.S.
the majority ruling doesn’t Arizona Supreme Court Justices from left; William G. Montgomery, John R Lopez IV, Vice Chief Supreme Court issued the
explicitly say that. The 1864 Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer, Chief Justice Robert M. Brutinel, Clint Bolick and James Beene listen 1973 Roe v. Wade decision
to oral arguments on April 20, 2021, in Phoenix.
law carries a sentence of Associated Press guaranteeing a constitu-
two to five years in prison for tional right to an abortion.
doctors or anyone else who weeks of pregnancy. lawmakers who expressed very fact,” said Burch. “This After the U.S. Supreme Court
assists in an abortion. State Sen. Arizona Eva support for the ban. moment must not slow us overturned Roe v. Wade in
Arizona’s high court ruling Burch, who dramatically “We know that every single down.” June 2022, state Attorney
reviewed a 2022 decision by announced on the Sen- Republican in the Arizona Burch noted that Arizonans General Mark Brnovich, a
the state Court of Appeals ate floor last month that House and Senate support- will be able to vote this fall Republican, persuaded a
that said doctors couldn’t her pregnancy wasn’t vi- ed this territorial total ban on a ballot measure allow- state judge in Tucson to lift
be charged for performing able and she was getting on abortion they signed an ing the right to abortion, the block on enforcing the
the procedure in the first 15 an abortion, criticized GOP amicus brief affirming that adding that “the right for re- 1864 law.q

More than half of foreign-born people in US live in just 4 states and

half are naturalized citizens

ulation, with most states population from Asia went However, the figures show
seeing double-digit per- from more than a quarter that more than half of the
centage increases in the to under a third during that foreign-born are natural-
last dozen years, accord- time, while the share of Af- ized citizens, with Europe-
ing to the figures from the rican-born went from 4% to an-born and Asian-born
bureau’s American Com- 6%. people leading the way
munity Survey. The report was released with naturalization rates at
In California, New Jersey, as immigration has be- around two-thirds of their
New York and Florida, for- come a top issue during numbers. Around two-thirds
eign-born individuals com- the 2024 presidential race, of the foreign-born popula-
prised more than 20% of with the Biden administra- tion came to the U.S. be-
each state’s population. tion struggling to manage fore 2010.
They constituted 1.8% of an unprecedented influx The foreign-born popula-
West Virginia’s population, of migrants at the South- tion has grown older in the
the smallest rate in the U.S. west border. Immigration past dozen years, a reflec-
Women representing more than 20 countries take part in a Half of the foreign-born resi- is shaping the elections in tion of some members’ lon-
Naturalization Ceremony, March 8, 2024, in San Antonio. dents in the U.S. were from a way that could deter- gevity in the U.S., with the
Associated Press
Latin America, although mine control of Congress as median age increasing five
By MIKE SCHNEIDER older and more educated their composition has shift- Democrats try to outflank years to 46.7 years. They
Associated Press over the past dozen years, ed in the past dozen years, Republicans and convince also became more edu-
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — according to a new report with those from Mexico voters they can address cated from 2010 to 2022,
More than half of the for- released Tuesday by the dropping by about 1 mil- problems at the U.S. border with the rate of foreign-
eign-born population in the U.S. Census Bureau. lion people and those from with Mexico. born people holding at
United States lives in just In 2022, the foreign-born South America and Central The Census Bureau report least a high school degree
four states California, Tex- population was estimated America increasing by 2.1 didn’t provide estimates going from more than two-

as, Florida and New York to be 46.2 million people, or million people. on the number of people in thirds to three-quarters of
and their numbers grew almost 14% of the U.S. pop- The share of the foreign the U.S. illegally. the population.q