Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amman Navas on the news hour tonight.

Arizona Supreme Court upholds a Civil war era abortion law,

effectively banning the procedure in the state.

Congressman Mike Johnson fights to remain

as House Speaker among a divided Republican party.

And reconciliation and rebuilding in Rwanda 30 years after the genocide

that killed more than a million people. We decided to forgive and we decided to

move on but that thing still lingers it's a human

natural thing. Welcome to the news hour. Arizona will soon be the latest state with a near total abortion ban.

After that state Supreme Court revived a 160 year old law,

the law provides no exceptions for rape or incest.

And in its four to two opinion,

the conservative majority wrote, quote,

physicians are now on notice that all abortions

except those necessary to save a woman's life are illegal.

Doctors who perform abortions could face criminal prosecution and prison time

though the Democratic Attorney General says she will not prosecute.

It's the latest test of the limits on abortion

since the Supreme Court ended federal abortion

protections from the decades old Roe v. Wade decision.

And in this election year, there's already

an effort underway to get a pro-abortion rights amendment

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