Arizona Democrat says repealing 1864 abortion ban would have little effect

Senate hopeful Ruben Gallego says the damage is done' and enshrining abortion rights in constitution is best countermeasure

Repealing the 1864 near-total abortion ban that Arizona's state supreme court recently ruled was enforceable would have little effect because the damage is done", the Democratic congressman Ruben Gallego said on Sunday.

Any initiative they pass right now wouldn't even take effect for quite a while," the US House member and Senate hopeful told NBC News on Sunday. He also said a repeal would be vulnerable to being neutralized by future iterations of the state legislature, remarking: It could just get overturned later by another state house or state senate."