SE Valley Times

Ken Cook, a Mesa resident and member of the St. Timothy's parish, said abortion "is an action" and not a right, and is opposite to the meaning of human existence. 

"Abortion is a core issue of every human’s existence and is the opposite meaning of existence," Cook said. "Thou shall not kill. Abortion is not a right. Abortion is an action—an arbitrary but intentional deed to do harm."

"There should be no level of abortion considered to be acceptable, even if a mother’s life is at stake," he said. "A parent’s most basic duty to their child should be to sacrifice one’s life to ensure their child’s life if this is the choice."

“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.”