Indicted Arizona GOP Senator Compares Abortion Ban Repeal To Holocaust

The State Senate debate on the bill to repeal the 1864 abortion ban in Arizona went completely off the rails on Wednesday, with several extremist Republicans giving rambling and at times horrifying comments in defense of an abortion ban that was passed in 1864.

Even though the final vote of 16-14 had been tallied, with two Republicans joining all Democrats in voting to repeal the ban, rules of the Arizona Senate allow members to give floor speeches to explain their votes for unlimited periods of time. The result was a mini-filibuster that delayed certification of the vote for over an hour, with all Republican members speaking at length against reproductive freedom.

One of the most egregious speeches came from Anthony Kern, a Republican who was just indicted for being a fake elector in Donald Trump's attempted coup to steal Arizona's electoral votes. After calling the 19th century pre-statehood ban "the best abortion ban in the country," Kern compared its repeal to the holocaust.

"We have two Republicans voting with the Democrats to repeal an abortion ban while saying 'I'm pro-life,'" Kern said. "That's kinda like Nazi Germany where the Nazis said, 'Jews you have something wrong with you, you go to the death chamber, you [other] Jews can work the field.'"

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