Chasing the Vote: Arizona’s Abortion Battle

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🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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After a court revived a Civil War-era abortion ban in Arizona, lawmakers quickly moved to repeal it. But the saga has already revealed fractures among Republicans who have struggled to coalesce around how far to push abortion restrictions, while Democrats have had success using the issue to motivate their base and get independent voters to come to their side. WSJ political reporter Jimmy Vielkind travels to the battleground state to find out how voters are weighing the issue of abortion as they prepare to head to the polls. Relevant Links: Why Arizona Will Be Ground Zero for the 2024 Abortion Fight Arizona Is the Next Abortion Battleground Arizona Legislature Votes to Repeal State’s Ban on Virtually All Abortions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	That's Linda Chiles. We're sitting in her living room in Phoenix, Arizona
0:29.7	while she makes calls to voters on her cell phone
0:32.2	as her cat, Miss Kitty, prowls nearby.
0:36.0	It's mid-July, before President Biden ended his re-election campaign.
0:40.0	Hi there, Nick, this is Linda Chios, and I'm a volunteer with Maricopa County Democratic Party.
0:45.8	I'm not trying to sell you anything. It's just that we're reaching out to see if you would be
0:50.3	interested in signing up for the early voting list and get your ballot it.
0:55.0	Okay, I guess now.
0:57.0	That happens. Hung up.
1:00.0	This is what politics looks like in the Arizona summer, spending as much time as you can in the AC.
1:06.0	It's going, okay.
1:08.0	Hi, hey there, oh, Rebecca, did I call you and leave a message about the early voting?
1:16.6	Linda grew up in a family that supported Republicans and voted that way for much of her life.
1:21.6	The 80 year old said she missed lots of the activism that swept up others in her generation,
1:26.5	like marches for women's rights and against the Vietnam War. She's retired now, and I met her because she spent her days this spring and summer working on the Arizona for abortion access or AAA campaign.
1:39.0	Before she switched to making phone calls, she was stopping people at a popular trailhead to gather
1:44.3	signatures to put an abortion rights referendum on the Arizona ballot this November.
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