Meet the Arizona Lawmaker Who Announced Her Abortion on the Statehouse Floor
Then, of course, having to tell me that I could consider adoption and parenting as options, which in my case is obviously outrageous. I would have loved to consider parenting as an option, but that was not realistic for me, I was going to have a miscarriage, it was inevitable. And if I didn’t have a miscarriage, then I was going to be in trouble. But that’s not the conversation that my doctor gets to have with me.
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A Democratic state senator needs an abortion. She told her colleagues about Arizona’s ‘cruel’ laws.
Burch was forced to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound, hear a list of mandated recommendations from her provider — including advice to avail herself of foster care or adoption alternatives, despite the fact that her fetus has no chance of survival — and wait 24 hours before receiving an abortion. All of those requirements are mandated by state laws approved by GOP lawmakers.
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This lawmaker says Arizona’s laws are making it needlessly difficult for her to get an abortion
Burch, a nurse, said the law also required her provider to give her a list of what she deemed “absolute disinformation” and other information that did not apply to her situation, including telling her that adoption is an alternative to abortion.
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