Arizona anti-abortion activists aren’t letting up after Supreme Court victory
“There’s no penalization of women,” Baird lamented. “Women are free, under the law, to do a DIY abortion without any repercussions from the law. We want the law to protect these babies just like the law protects you and I.”
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Arizona GOP strategy document implores party to show ‘Republicans have a plan’ on abortion
Dawn Penich, spokesperson for Arizona for Abortion Access, the coalition of reproductive rights organizations including the ACLU of Arizona and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, said that the document “shows yet again why Arizonans can’t leave our most basic and personal rights in the hands of politicians in the state legislature.
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Leaked document reveals Republican plans to combat abortion initiative
“So they have put forward a plan whose goal is to confuse voters with competing measures that cannot all be in existence at the same time, while building in for themselves a way to continue changing the laws, regardless of what voters choose to do on their ballot,” Penich-Thacker said.
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‘The damage is done’: Ruben Gallego says repealing Arizona’s near-total abortion ban now would be too little, too late
“The only protection we really, really have is to codify this and put this on the ballot and enshrine Roe and protect abortion rights,” he said.
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Arizona Republicans Want to Throw My Doctor In Jail
At my first doctor’s visit with Planned Parenthood, the doctor and I discussed that my pregnancy was not viable, and I shared my bloodwork and ultrasounds with her. In spite of this, she was required to ask me why I was having an abortion. She was required to tell me that I could consider adoption or parenting instead of abortion. She was required to tell me that if I chose to continue my pregnancy, the father would be required to provide me with financial support. She was required to give me another transvaginal ultrasound. She was required to ask me if I wanted to look at it.
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