'The View' hosts slam Arizona Supreme Court abortion ruling: 'What’s the next thing?'
The hosts of ABC’s “The View” slammed a recent ruling on abortion law by the Arizona Supreme Court on their Wednesday show.
“What’s the next thing?” co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked in reaction to the Tuesday ruling by the Grand Canyon State’s highest court. “‘Cause you know, on this, with all of this comes birth control. With all of this comes everything that you need as a woman to have … have had put in place, to make sure that we were doing better than we were before.”
On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court rejected arguments that it should uphold a 15-week ban on abortion in a 4-2 decision. The 15-week ban, originally passed in 2022, was enforced in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Arizona’s highest court instead ruled in favor of the enforcement of an 1864 law that makes abortion a felony that’s punishable by two to five years in prison for those who perform it or those who help someone get one. The court also lifted a stay on the abortion law, which has an intensely slim exception for “when it is necessary” to save the life of a pregnant person, resulting in it going into effect in two weeks.
“The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said that “even” former President Reagan “always believed in exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother.”
“I believe that … a lot of elected Republicans are completely out of step with the sentiment of the country because we've seen in Kansas, a very red state, Ohio and Kentucky, that Republicans turned out to protect some access to abortion,” said Griffin, a former Trump White House communications director. “So this … is a very … big win for Democrats, I believe, in the election.”
President Biden derided the Arizona ruling as well in a Tuesday statement, blaming it on an “extreme” GOP agenda.
“Millions of Arizonans will soon live under an even more extreme and dangerous abortion ban, which fails to protect women even when their health is at risk or in tragic cases of rape or incest,” Biden said.
“This cruel ban was first enacted in 1864 — more than 150 years ago, before Arizona was even a state and well before women had secured the right to vote,” the president continued. “This ruling is a result of the extreme agenda of Republican elected officials who are committed to ripping away women’s freedom.”