SE Valley Times

Eva Berney, a Mesa resident and member of the St. Timothy's parish, said "there will be no peace" until abortion is no longer allowed in the U.S. 

"Abortion is the most important issue in this election season," Berney said. "Abortion is a violent procedure for both the mother and the baby. It is the murder of the baby and kills the mother's conscience and spirit even without her knowing it. As long as we allow it in our society, there will be no peace. I am most concerned with abortion becoming a constitutional right in Arizona. I am totally against making abortion a right with no restrictions."

“Donald Trump is the most pro-life politician in my life,” Tom McClusky, conservative speaker and Principal at Greenlight Strategies, said at the National Conservatism’s Beyond Dobbs panel. “When he comes back into office, he can change the federal laws that use taxpayer dollars to fund abortion, and he can change family policy to promote the bearing and raising of children.”

An Arizona court ruling in April of this year brought back a state law from 1864 which banned all abortions except for when the life of the mother was endangered. Arizona House legislators passed House Bill 2677 on May 2 to repeal the ban, with Governor Katie Hobbs signing the bill into law. The bill goes into effect on September 14, 2024, with a ban on enforcing the 1864 law in effect until September 27, 2024.

“The Democrats are the radicals on this because they're willing to have abortions in the seventh, eighth, ninth month,” former President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post. “We’re talking about the execution of a baby. And you can say what you want, but that's extreme and that's radical.”