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Apr 16, 2024
Abortion law from an age when child molestation was legal, inter-racial marriage illegal
Members of the first legislature, adopting the laws for the newly formed territory after it was separated from New Mexico, also were busy deciding what other kinds of things were legal and which were not. And while some have withstood the test of time, like statutes on homicide, others have become anachronisms or simply become unacceptable.
