Earlier this week, the Arizona Supreme Court dealt the latest blow to women’s freedom by resurrecting a 160-year-old law banning abortion almost outright. Ditching its previous rules allowing abortion up to 15 weeks, Arizonan politicians decided Civil-War era legislation from 1864 would do, which bans abortion in all cases except when the mother’s life is at risk, and punishes doctors who perform abortions as felons with up to five years in jail.

Following the overruling of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision by the US Supreme Court in 2022, which had provided federal protection for abortion, many Republican-leaning states began enacting bans. Abortion is effectively banned in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky,…