States with abortion bans should pay mothers for forced births

This month, the Arizona Supreme Court decided it was legally sound and proper to enforce an 1864 law criminalizing all abortions in the state except when a woman’s life is at stake. The law could take effect as early as June. The near-total ban on abortion includes no exceptions for rape or incest and was first enacted during the Civil War and nearly a half-century before Arizona became a state in 1912 — and more than a half-century before some women were granted the right to vote. Under the law,...