Kari Lake flips yet again as she hits opponents of Civil War era abortion law

Arizona Senate hopeful Kari Lake appears to have changed her position on the state's Civil War era total abortion ban — again.

Immediately after the Republican-controlled state Supreme Court allowed the ban — which was passed decades before Arizona even became a state and makes no exceptions other than to save the life of the pregnant woman — to be enforced, Lake came out with a statement condemning the decision, saying, "it is abundantly clear that the pre-statehood law is out of step with Arizonans."

She was even reportedly calling up Republican state legislators and urging them to repeal the ban.

That was already a major reversal from statements she made prior to the judges' decision, when she called the ban "a great law" and expressed the hope it would become enforceable.

But now she appears to have reversed herself yet again in an interview with The Idaho Dispatch, and is attacking Democratic Party leaders in her state for not enforcing the law.

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“The Arizona Supreme Court said this is the law of Arizona. But unfortunately, the people running our state have said we’re not going to enforce it,” she said in the interview, which came as she delivered a keynote address to the Bonneville County Republican Party.

“We don’t have that law, as much as many of us wish we did.”

Lake, a former Phoenix news anchor, first came on the scene when former President Donald Trump backed her in the 2022 gubernatorial election against Democratic then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. After losing that race, she refused to concede and filed a series of unsuccessful lawsuits to try to get the decision thrown out.

She is currently running to challenge Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego for the open Senate seat, which is being vacated by outgoing independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema after she declined to seek re-election.