While abortion rights activists work to make the health service a constitutionally protected right, Arizona’s Supreme Court is reconsidering a pre-statehood ban.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville's decision means these military officers are not getting the pay raises they’re owed, cannot move their families to wherever they’re going to be stationed next, and cannot enroll their children in new schools.
Gov. katie Hobbs, who signed the executive order Thursday, said it applies to self-administered contraceptives, and patients 18 or older need only complete a screening and a blood pressure test.
This ban, passed just last year in the Republican-held legislature, disrespects the autonomy of women and families who must make wrenching decisions about serious complications later in pregnancy.
House Republicans have spent their first 100 days in power discussing plans to cut social programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food assistance and conducting half-baked and conspiracy-fueled investigations.
Arizona health care providers are confident they will be able to continue providing safe abortions, even as courts tangle over an order that could halt distribution of a key abortion medication.