Women are reeling, planning after Arizona's Supreme Court upheld an 1864 abortion ban.

Arizona residents are grappling with what it means to live in a state where pregnant people, including victims of incest and rape, will be forced to continue a pregnancy.

The topic is on the minds of women, from teens to college students to retirees, as the state and nation come to grips with the Arizona Supreme Court's April 9 abortion decision.

Arizona State University student Emily Fox-Million, a transplant from Colorado, says she felt more comfortable in her home state because the state constitution protects abortion.

"I'm devastated," Fox-Million said. "As a sexually active female in Arizona, there's always the chance that you could get pregnant, and it's really scary to think that your right to abortion could be taken away at a moment's notice. It's also a very archaic law."

The Arizona Republic spoke with eight Phoenix women with a variety of viewpoints.

Six of the women had a range of negative reactions to the ruling, including disgust, sadness and anger. Two of the women said they were pro-life and think pregnant people should keep their babies or give them up for adoption, but not abort them.

Maria Maytorena, a Phoenix resident and retiree, said she believes states should be allowed to make their own laws on abortion access, but Arizona's near-total ban goes way too far.

"I think Arizona is going very extreme," she said.

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ASU student Rachel Masson said she views the decision as "an attack on people with uteruses" and not necessarily an attack on women. She wanted people to be mindful of how tough a decision it is for people to consider having an abortion.

"You know, just kind of humanize the situation... It's easy for someone to not care about someone that they don't know getting an abortion." Put yourself in that person's shoes, she said.

Masson acknowledged differing views within her own religious community but said she believes strongly in the right to choose.

Downtown Phoenix resident Amy Levine, an e-commerce director who moved to Arizona from the East Coast, said she is "just disgusted" and the ruling is an "obvious attempt throughout the country to control women, and to control their bodies."

Alexis Myers, a 20-year-old student, said she heard about the ruling from her mother.

"It takes away all right to choose for women, and I just really think this goes to show that everyone has to vote in November, especially women," Myers said.

Julia Jordan, a 2021 ASU nursing school graduate, said she wasn't surprised by the Arizona Supreme Court decision but found it "profoundly disappointing."

"I think it will endanger a lot of people. Laws that were written in the 1800s are not going to reflect today's medical terminology," she said.

Jordan raised concerns that the ruling could make pregnant people who have a miscarriage vulnerable to persecution. "It doesn't sit well with me, and I don't think it's going to progress well."

She plans to remind people she knows that an abortion measure will be on Arizona's ballot in November so the protection of abortion access can become the law.

Kim Kubera, who moved to Phoenix from Michigan five years ago and is Catholic, said she opposes abortion.

"They can always adopt a baby out," she said.

Similarly, Charline Shoen, a Catholic interviewed after she exited St. Mary's Basilica downtown, said she believes abortion should be illegal under any circumstance. She favors helping women either to keep their babies or put them up for adoption.

"I've been in the pro-life movement for many, many years," Shoen said.

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Arizona's Supreme Court abortion ban based on 1864 law 'devastating'