Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake has an opinion on her state’s Civil War-era abortion ban. However, her public opinion has morphed several times recently.
In an interview with the Idaho Dispatch on Saturday, Lake said the state’s abortion law, which bans nearly all abortions, will “unfortunately” not be enforced, seemingly changing her previous negative statements on the law.
“The Arizona Supreme Court said this is the law of Arizona,” Lake said. “But unfortunately, the people running our state have said we’re not going to enforce it.”
“We don’t have that law, as much as many of us wish we did,” she added.
Lake’s statement came in response to a question about how she would like to respond to a press release from the anti-abortion organization Idaho Chooses Life in which it condemned her previous disapproval of the ban.
“Imagine our profound disappointment, then, when we saw this heroine join the media mob in calling for an immediate ‘fix’ to Arizona’s historic law protecting preborn children,” the statement said.
On April 11, Lake tweeted a roughly 5 1/2-minute-long video discussing her thoughts on abortion, and in it, she condemned the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision to enforce the law.
“This total ban on abortion that the Arizona Supreme Court just ruled on is out of line with where the people of this state are,” she said in the video.
The next day, she reposted her video with a screenshot showing former President Donald Trump’s disapproval of the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling, as he called it an “inappropriate” law.
If Lake is supporting the ban, it wouldn’t be a new stance for her. Lake called the ban a “great law” when she ran for governor in 2022. While Lake may or may not agree with the state’s abortion ban, she has generally continued campaigning as an anti-abortion candidate.
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The Washington Examiner reached out to Lake’s campaign, seeking to clarify her stance on the 1864 ban, but the campaign did not respond.
Lake is trailing her likely opponent, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), by almost $3.5 million in first-quarter fundraising as she seeks to capture the competitive Arizona Senate seat in November.
