Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) slams Arizona's 1864 abortion ban: "Doctors can't treat you because they'll be criminalized."

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D) on Friday called the state’s Supreme Court ruling upholding a Civil War-era abortion ban "absolutely outrageous" and shared her personal experience of losing a pregnancy to a miscarriage.

“We can talk about how crazy it is that a law passed in 1864 by 27 men now controls the lives of millions of Arizona women, but I want to talk about the effect that's going to have on women in our state,” Hobbs said in an interview on “The View.” “I myself have personally experienced … losing a pregnancy by miscarriage, and the treatment for that is a procedure that is also an abortion — and that is a common treatment, and how outrageous is it that if you have this terrible thing happen that doctors can't treat you, because they'll be criminalized for it now.”

Hobbs shared the story of a woman who had to seek medical treatment in another state due to the restrictive laws in Arizona.

“She was pregnant with twins. One of those twins had serious complications, and carrying that pregnancy to term would have jeopardized not only the other twin, but her own life, and she needed a selective reduction, and she couldn't get that in Arizona,” Hobbs said. “Even though it's a procedure that wasn't outlawed, she had to go to another state to get that procedure because of the chilling effect that these kind of bans have on doctors in our state.”

The governor, who has a background as a social worker, also emphasized the impact that lack of reproductive health care can have on victims of domestic violence.

“I worked with domestic violence victims, and I saw time and again how these abusers controlled their victims in so many ways. Reproduction was one of those, and the impact — the devastating impacts of not having control over their own bodies, and what that did for them. That is the reality that Arizona women are living in today,” Hobbs said.