Kari Lake walks back ‘rare and legal’ abortion comment
By JONATHAN J. COOPER
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — A spokesman for Kari Lake says the Republican candidate for Arizona governor didn’t mean to suggest abortion should be legal. Spokesman Ross Trumble says Lake is not calling for changes to abortion laws weeks after a judge ruled that prosecutors can enforce a near-total ban on terminating pregnancies. Lake told a Phoenix talk radio host that abortion should be “rare and legal” before saying twice that it should be “rare but safe.” Trumble said Tuesday that she meant to say only “rare but safe.” Arizona doctors stopped performing abortions following the court ruling late last month.
