Tim Steller's column: Abortion ruling defensible, but 1864 ban must go

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : (But Friday, in a press conference at his Florida home, Trump boasted, "We broke Roe v. Wade," and added, "The states are working very brilliantly.
62% : Then by the other side -- the two dissenting members arguing that a 2022 law made that ban obsolete.Looking strictly at the law, not at the outcome, it strikes this layman as a coin flip.
57% : They know the political peril the decision puts them in, since their party birthed this ban opposed by most Arizonans.
51% : "Ducey, of course, should have known this ban was a strong possibility.
49% : Their position puts them at rare odds with their leader, Trump.
47% : That's when we'll be voting on at least one ballot issue related to reproductive rights -- the Arizona Abortion Access initiative that would enshrine in the state constitution the right to an abortion up until the time of fetal viability outside the womb.
39% : Meanwhile, many Republicans are playing defense, even flip-flopping on this key cultural issue to stay in line with Trump and the electorate.
33% : Trump, Arizona GOP had rolesThe truth is, it really is more Trump's problem and the problem of Arizona Republicans of the 2022 session, than it is the state Supreme Court's.
21% : Trump, in turn, has blamed Arizona's Supreme Court, saying that the ruling goes too far and that the Legislature and governor need to fix the problem.
14% : In Tucson Friday, Harris blamed Trump for the Arizona Supreme Court's ruling, noting that he appointed the court majority that overturned Roe v. Wade, giving the states leeway to make their own abortion laws -- or, in this case, inherit them.

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