Abortion bill amended to strike controversial provision

A House committee struck a controversial provision from a bill that expands the amount of information abortion providers must report to the state. Rep. Eddie Farnsworth...

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Abortion bill requires more reporting from doctors, hospitals, clinics

Doctors who provide abortions would have to ask a woman why she wants the procedure under a legislative proposal to boost reporting requirements. Hospitals, abortion clinics and the Arizona Department...

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Abortion debate brings out lawmakers’ personal experiences, emotions

Sen. Eva Burch, D-Mesa, and Sen. Janae Shamp, R-Surprise, speak after an emotional debate on the Senate floor Feb. 22, 2023, on a proposed law that...

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Abortion is on the ballot in Arizona and nationwide

Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Phoenix on the fifth stop of her “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour, part of the Biden-Harris campaign’s unprecedented effort to center abortion rights...

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Abortion laws ignore reality of most lives

Arizona women who are no more than 15 weeks pregnant will be able to keep getting legal abortions through at least the end of the year,...

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Abortion legal under Puritans, more than 200 years – what changed?

My sister and I went on an Amtrak vacation in July to attend a conference and visit friends and family in the Midwest. On her last leg home, my sister...

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Abortion outlawed, political conflict continues

A pre-statehood ban on nearly all abortions will stand, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled today. In a 4-2 decision, justices found the removal of the federal right to abortion on...

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Abortion questionnaire bill on Ducey’s desk

It is now up to Gov. Doug Ducey to decide whether women will be asked why they want an abortion. On a largely party-line vote the state Senate voted 17-13...

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Abortion questionnaire bill signed into law

(Deposit Photos/Merion_Merion) Women who want to terminate a pregnancy are going to be asked some questions first. But they don’t have to answer. Gov. Doug Ducey...

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Abortion restrictions target, deceive families

This artist sketch depicts Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart, standing while speaking to the Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington. Center for Reproductive Rights...

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Abortion ruling could lead to stricter laws

This artist sketch depicts Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart, standing while speaking to the Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington. Center for Reproductive Rights...

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Abortion: The overlooked tragedy for black Americans

During February, which is Black History Month, it is a good time to look upon the triumphs and tragedies in African American history. Movies like Harriet tell of heroes of...

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AG defends abortion law

Arizona is free to tell women they can’t have an abortion if the reason is because of genetic fetal defect, even if it is prior to viability, the state’s top...

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Almost 400 new laws take effect Friday

Come this Friday, women who want an abortion will be asked new questions, consumers can have their credit frozen for free, Grade A eggs can stay on the shelf longer,...

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Anti-abortion group wants to help defend state in Planned Parenthood suit

(Deposit Photos/Merion_Merion) An organization that counsels women not to terminate their pregnancies wants the right to help Attorney General Mark Brnovich fend off legal challenges by...

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Arizona abortion bill approved by Senate panel

Women who want an abortion would have to tell state health officials exactly why under the terms of legislation approved Wednesday by a Senate panel. On a party-line vote, members...

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Arizona appellate court says 15-week abortion ban law of land

The Court of Appeals ruled the territorial-era abortion ban is unenforceable, making abortions in Arizona legal before 15 weeks under the most recent law passed by the legislature. Today’s ruling...

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Arizona governor asked to rescind executive order limiting prosecution of abortion-related cases

Twelve of Arizona’s 15 county attorneys are calling for Gov. Katie Hobbs to rescind her recent executive order that limits them from prosecuting abortion-related cases. “The governor’s office should not...

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Arizona justices consider arguments on 2 laws regulating abortion

The fate of state abortion law now rests in the hands of the Arizona Supreme Court, leaving justices to mull whether to allow abortions before 15 weeks’ gestation or to reenact...

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Arizona lawmaker says she announced plans to get an abortion to underscore out-of-touch laws

A pregnant Arizona lawmaker who revealed in a speech at the state Senate that she was planning to get an abortion says she wanted to share with her colleagues and...

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Arizona ordered to pay Planned Parenthood’s legal fees

The state of Arizona has been ordered to pay Planned Parenthood of Arizona and other abortion providers more than $600,000 in attorney fees and other costs they spent fighting a...

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Arizona Supreme Court to hear arguments on conflicting abortion law

The Arizona Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday about whether Arizona women will lose virtually all their rights to terminate a pregnancy. Attorneys for the anti-abortion Alliance Defending Freedom want...

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Arizona’s legal battle over abortion likely far from over

The incoming attorney general says she won’t appeal a ruling that doctors in Arizona can perform abortions through the 15th week of pregnancy. But that...

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As Arizona Supreme Court weighs abortion law, both sides brace for ruling

WASHINGTON – It’s been nearly two months since the Arizona Supreme Court heard arguments over the state’s abortion law, and its ruling in that case could all but ban abortions...

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Assuring reproductive justice would make AZ truly pro-life state

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Attorneys study legal theories as clock ticks toward abortion ban enforcement

Attorneys for Planned Parenthood and its allies are rushing to see if there is a viable legal theory to keep the state from once again enforcing its territorial-era abortion law....

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Bill criminalizing some abortions advances

Brushing aside questions of legality and religion, a House panel voted March 17 along party lines to imprison doctors who terminate a pregnancy solely because the fetus has a genetic...

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Bill erroneously equates emergency contraception with abortion

Nearly 15 years after the Federal Drug Administration approved emergency contraception to be sold without a prescription, a bill in the Arizona Legislature seeks to equate the use of emergency...

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Bill would help meet needs of women who don’t want abortion

Dear Editor, When I volunteered with a pregnancy resource center, many of the women I met didn’t want to choose abortion but felt they didn’t have a choice due to...

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Bills would insert politicians into private, medical decisions

Editor: On February 25, U.S. Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., demonstrated just how out-of-touch she is with the people of Arizona when she voted in support of two pieces of anti-choice...

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BREAKING: Abortion in Arizona outlawed

Arizona’s territorial-era law outlawing abortion except to save the life of the mother is enforceable, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. In a split decision, four of the justices said...

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Brnovich argues state can have 2 different abortion laws

Attorney General Mark Brnovich (Randy Hoeft/Yuma Sun via AP) Attorney General Mark Brnovich says there’s nothing legally wrong with having two different statutes on the books...

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Brnovich asks judge to let him enforce abortion law

Attorney General Mark Brnovich wants a judge to let him start enforcing a law prohibiting certain abortions despite a federal court ruling which found it...

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CD6 foes make false allegations against each other

From left are Kirsten Engel and Juan Ciscomani Candidates in a competitive new congressional district are lobbing false allegations at one another in ads over abortion...

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Controversial abortion bill signed into law

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on April 27 signed the state’s most far-reaching anti-abortion measure in years, criminalizing providing abortions sought because of a genetic abnormality. The bill, which passed both the House and Senate...

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Costly Consequences: The Irony of the Equal Rights Amendment

Public policy often sounds better in theory than it plays out in reality. The Affordable Care Act, The Patriot Act, The Women’s Reproductive Health Care Act have all been criticized...

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Court keeps hold on abortion law in place

A federal judge has turned back a bid by Attorney General Mark Brnovich to let the state start enforcing new abortion restrictions despite his order concluding they are likely unconstitutional. In...

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Court losses piling up for anti-abortion legislation, cost state millions

The state of Arizona has been ordered to pay roughly $2.2 million in legal fees in the past eight years to organizations that challenge restrictive abortion laws adopted by the...

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Court puts new abortion law on hold

A federal judge late Tuesday blocked Arizona from making criminals out of doctors who perform abortions knowing the woman’s reason is a genetic fetal defect. In a 30-page ruling, Judge...

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Democrats fail to get vote on right to contraceptives

House and Senate Republicans used their rules Wednesday to block a vote – or even a debate – on a proposal to enshrine the right to contraceptives in Arizona law. Rep....

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Ducey asks Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade

Gov. Doug Ducey wants the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn it’s historic decision in Roe v. Wade and leave the question of whether to allow abortion in Arizona to state...

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Ducey signs abortion, transgender bills

Gov. Doug Ducey today signed legislation to outlaw virtually all abortions after 15 weeks, preclude transgender girls from participating in women’s sports, and make it illegal for doctors to perform...

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Ducey signs controversial abortion bill

Rejecting fears by doctors they could get arrested, Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday signed a new law restricting who can get an abortion. The measure, which takes effect later this...

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Federal agency takes abortion stance, says life begins at conception

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has changed key language in its newly released draft strategic plan that puts the department in the center of the heated debate...

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Fetal heartbeat bill stalls in Senate

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Fund 211 hotline, allow access to people who need it

The 211 statewide hotline connects people to local resources such as shelters, food banks, health care, and finances. It’s an essential thread in the fabric of providing Arizonans with access...

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GOP majority blocks efforts to repeal territorial abortion ban

A Republican in the state House of Representatives attempted to put up a bill for a vote Wednesday that would repeal the 1864 state ban on abortion procedures, leading to...

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Groups oppose bid to enforce abortion law

In this April 23, 2021, file photo, members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. Seated from left...

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Half of this year’s bills died unceremoniously

(Photo by Franck Boston/DEPOSIT PHOTO) Covid and increased Capitol security aside, this January at the Legislature started like almost every one before it. Lawmakers and their...

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Hearing on fetal resuscitation bill used to demonstrate ‘our different world views’

A bill to repeal a 2017 law that put requirements on what doctors have to do if a baby is born alive during an abortion failed to pass out of...

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Here’s what was missing in the ERA article – abortion

Ratifying the ERA would make it more difficult for anti-choice judges to uphold legal challenges to abortion rights by creating a precedent for equality between the sexes in the Constitution....

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Here’s why women need our bill

We talk often about how Arizona is one of the best states in the country to raise a family. But is it the best state to be pregnant and form...

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Herrod praises new law that threatens Planned Parenthood funding

Lawmakers approved legislation this year that threatens to pull funding from Planned Parenthood, and passed a law that requires physicians to do more to save fetuses that are “delivered alive.”...

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House approves bill to ban abortions for genetic reasons

After more than two hours of impassioned and at times acrimonious debate, the House voted 31-29 along party lines Thursday to advance a bill that would put several new restrictions on abortion in Arizona. SB1457 will, among other...

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House panel OKs abortion, transgender bills

An abortion ban modeled on a Mississippi law being challenged in court right now took a step closer to becoming law in Arizona today. Senate Bill 1164, which makes it...

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House preliminarily approves pro-life proposal

The House gave preliminary approval today for a bill that sets aside $2.5 million to be awarded to an organization that would provide referral services for pregnant women and new...

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House Republicans accidentally distribute preliminary plans on abortion ban

A House GOP presentation accidentally sent to all House members Monday morning outlines a potential strategy of Republicans considering abortion ballot measures to conflict with the initiative being pushed by abortion...

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House sends transgender sports, abortion bills to Ducey

Bills to ban many abortions and restrict transgender youth from getting reassignment surgery or playing on some sports teams are headed to Gov. Ducey’s desk. The House passed Senate Bill...

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Judge refuses to halt order on abortion ban

The Hon. Kellie Johnson presides over a hearing in Pima County Superior Court in Tucson, Ariz. on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via...

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Judge weighs legality of new abortion law

The question of whether Arizona gets to enforce a new restriction on the right to abortion could turn on whether a federal judge considers it a ban or a restriction....

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Lake flip-flops on ‘rare and legal’ abortion

Kari Lake, Republican candidate for Arizona governor, reacts to cheers from her supporters as she pauses while speaking Aug. 2 in Scottsdale. For a few hours...

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Law requiring questioning of women seeking abortion takes effect

Women seeking to terminate a pregnancy are now going to be confronted by some new questions about their decision. And the doctors who perform the procedure will have new reports...

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Legislature to debate bill to give $7.5M to nonprofit for pro-life counseling

Kathy Brody, an attorney with the ACLU, speaks May 21 at a press conference at the Arizona Capitol, in which pro-choice advocates warned lawmakers not to...

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O’Halleran, Kelly must support born-alive protections

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Planned Parenthood ends legal challenge to abortion laws

(Deposit Photo) Planned Parenthood has dropped its lawsuit challenging several abortion restrictions in Arizona, including the requirement for a 24-hour waiting period. Without explanation, attorneys for...

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Planned Parenthood files suit to overturn AZ abortion laws

Claiming the rights of women are being violated, Planned Parenthood filed a broad-based legal attack on a host of Arizona laws and regulations governing abortion. The lawsuit filed Thursday in...

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Politically motivated laws hurt women’s health, violate rights

Despite legislative efforts to the contrary, abortion is a constitutionally guaranteed right – even in Arizona. Yet in our state, opponents of abortion have been doing an end-run around the...

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Politically targeted justices limited in defending themselves

At the state’s annual judicial conference last June, an ethics director, a performance review commissioner and a political consultant advised judges to prepare to form campaign committees in 2024. The...

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Post-Roe Arizona abound in possibilities

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Progressive group out to oust 2 state Supreme Court justices

Progress Arizona is launching a campaign to deny new terms to two of the state Supreme Court justices who voted earlier this month to allow the 1864 law on abortion...

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Proposal to require questions of women who seek abortion returns

A controversial reporting requirement stripped from an abortion bill is back, and this time lawmakers also want to require doctors to save a sample of the fetal tissue if the...

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Religion has everything to do with abortion

Four anti-abortion bills have been introduced into the state legislature including a Texas copycat bill (HR2001, HR2483, SB1044, SB1164). The issue is not whether a state has the constitutional authority...

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Republicans, lawyers struggle with next step on abortion ban

Tuesday’s ruling on abortion in Arizona leaves attorneys, lawmakers and candidates at the precipice of a significantly shifted political and legal paradigm. What comes next will by and large be...

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Roe no reason to revisit gay marriage laws, Ducey says

Doug Ducey Gov. Doug Ducey said he’s not interested in using the Supreme Court ruling overturning its own precedent on the right to abortion as a...

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Salman announces resignation from state House

A Democratic state representative is resigning Dec. 31 to join a political action committee seeking to establish access to abortion as a constitutional right in Arizona. Rep. Athena Salman,...

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Senate bill to outlaw certain abortions gets tentative approval

State senators voted Wednesday to make abortions illegal if the woman is seeking to terminate the pregnancy because of a genetic abnormality of the fetus. The preliminary approval of SB1457...

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Senate kills proposal to fund pro-life program

Arizona taxpayers won’t be funding a special program designed to help groups that urge women not to terminate their pregnancies. HB 2759 picked up just 15 votes in the Senate...

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Senate panel moves bill to criminalize certain abortions

A legislative panel voted February 4 to make it a crime to terminate the pregnancy of a fetus with a genetic abnormality by declaring that it has the same legal...

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Senate revives failed abortion bill

Tyler Pace A sweeping anti-abortion bill will get another chance to pass the Arizona Legislature, after Senate Republicans used a convoluted series of motions to override...

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Senate will vote on abortion repeal

The Arizona state Senate passed a motion Wednesday to introduce a bill repealing the pre-statehood abortion ban with some help from Republican members, although neither chamber voted on a repeal...

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Sinema must stand with innocent children, not abortion lobby

It’s hard to believe that, in 21st century America, the life of a baby more than halfway through pregnancy is considered up for debate – but it’s true, thanks in part...

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Supreme Court abortion ruling could influence Arizona cases

An American flag waves in front of the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) A new ruling Monday...

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Sweeping abortion bill passes on party lines

Acting under the banner of protecting disability rights, the Republican-controlled legislature on Thursday voted along party lines to impose a new restriction on a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy...

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Sweeping abortion legislation voted down in Senate

A Republican senator who has developed a reputation for carefully parsing bills dealt a blow to Arizona’s anti-abortion lobby when he voted against what would have been the most far-reaching...

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Texas abortion law unleashes bounty hunters

Leen Garza participates in a protest with others against the six-week abortion ban at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. The Justice...

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U.S. Senate, governor candidates hedge on abortion

Deposit Photos Arizona will elect a new governor and a U.S. senator later this year, and the two officials could play key roles in determining the...

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Wait on Supreme Court justice nominee sparks speculation on outlawing abortion

Gov. Doug Ducey with Cathi Herrod, president of the anti-abortion Center for Arizona Policy (Capitol Media Services 2015 file photo by Howard Fischer) The president’s choice...

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Water, housing, abortion, teacher pay could be top issues for lawmakers

It’s taken four decades, Saudi cows munching on alfalfa grown with Arizona water and national headlines about whether Arizona is finally drying up. But state lawmakers appear to finally be...

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Why Arizona doesn’t force taxpayers to fund abortion

(Deposit Photos/Merion_Merion) Two and a half weeks after Governor Doug Ducey funded the 211 hotline program in the midst of the coronavirus, a naturopathic medical student called for funding...

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