The Arizona house has voted to repeal a 160 year-old law banning abortion, a major victory for the Democrat-led effort to take the law off the books.

Republicans had thwarted two earlier attempts to vote on ending the law, which bans abortions from conception without exceptions for rape or incest.

Three members of the party, though, broke ranks on Wednesday to vote for repeal in the narrowly divided house.

The bill now moves to the senate, where there is a good chance it will pass.

Last week, two Republican senators voted to advance a similar bill. That suggests there is enough Republican support in the senate to get the repeal through.

Arizona’s Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, has indicated she will sign the bill if it reaches her desk.

With the ban scheduled to go back into effect in June, lawmakers who oppose it are under deadline pressure.

“The people of Arizona are waiting for us to get this done,” said House Representative Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, who introduced the one-sentence repeal bill.

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