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- Trump said last week a near-total, Civil War-era abortion ban in Arizona had gone too far.
- But Republicans Wednesday shut down an attempt to repeal it.
- The law makes providing or helping with an abortion punishable by up to five years in prison.
Arizona Republicans shut down an attempt by Democrats to repeal a contentious abortion ban from 1864 that was reinstated by the state's Supreme Court earlier this month.
Democrats attempted to introduce a bill Wednesday that would repeal the ban during a state House legislative session, NBC reported. But two votes moving to discuss the bill failed.