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How Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake has shifted her abortion stance

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Updated April 17, 2024 at 4:37 p.m. EDT|Published April 13, 2024 at 7:43 p.m. EDT
Kari Lake speaks to a crowd in Florida on June 12. (Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post)
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In 2022, Republican candidate Kari Lake, who was vying to be governor, called abortion the “ultimate sin” and praised a 160-year-old Arizona measure that virtually outlawed abortion as “a great law.”

In 2024, Lake, now vying to be a U.S. senator, has evolved in her stance. After the Arizona state Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the 1864 law can be revived, Lake said the decision was “out of step with Arizonans.”