US anti-abortion activists plan new push in year of Republican schism

Critics condemn appalling' Republican legislation - with the ultimate goal of overturning Roe v Wade - in many US states

At a church-style rally in Arizona, the state Republican lawmaker Walter Blackman described his perfect" legislative proposal: to prosecute women who have abortions for homicide alongside the doctors who provide them.

Such a bill would be patently unconstitutional in the US - but for anti-abortion rights activists like Blackman that's the point.