Tag: Contraception
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Rachael Lorenzo calls it their “auntie laugh,” a powerful chuckle that lasts long and fills any space. Aunties are prominent figures in Indigenous culture who offer comfort...
Protecting access to contraception – a bipartisan issue
The right to contraception is a longstanding freedom that has allowed Americans to make our own decisions about our health. However, this right is currently under threat, from Supreme Court...
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SB1082 provides contraceptive help
As our legislators wind down this session and prepare to finish their work, they have a unique opportunity to help Arizona women. And Arizona women need the help. The Covid pandemic...
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SB1082 increases access to contraception, empowers patients
Last year marked the 60th anniversary of the birth of the birth control pill, a revolutionary step that provided millions of women with greater reproductive control. Nearly two generations later,...
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Morning-after pill avoids spotlight in new contraception law
While a bill allowing religiously motivated employers to deny contraception coverage to workers spurred heated debate on its path to becoming law this session, one of its provisions was largely...
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Brewer signs bill letting ‘religiously oriented’ employers opt out of contraception coverage
Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill Friday that relaxes Arizona’s requirement for health plans to cover contraception, legislation that supporters called a protection for religious freedom and that critics called...
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Brewer now ‘more favorable’ on contraception bill
[caption id="attachment_45545" align="alignleft" width="575" caption="Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, speaks during an interview from her office, Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at the Capitol in Phoenix. Brewer says a contraception coverage bill...
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House passes narrowed-down contraception bill
State representatives today passed a scaled-back bill that would allow religious-based employers to deny contraception coverage to their workers. The amended bill, HB2625, passed the Arizona House by a vote...
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Compromise cooking on contraception bill
Legislators are advancing a compromise to scale back a controversial bill on health plan coverage for contraception. The bill originally would have allowed any employer to claim a religious exemption...
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Senate OKs bill to allow employers to deny contraception coverage; but deal in works
Persuaded by a promise to substantially narrow the legislation, the Senate today passed a measure to allow employers with religious objections to not pay for their workers’ contraception coverage. Supporters...
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Senate skips voting on contraception bill
The Senate today skipped voting on legislation to allow employers with a religious objection to deny contraception coverage to their workers, which indicates that proponents have yet to persuade enough...
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AZ lawmakers receive knitted uterus as protest
[caption id="attachment_44663" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Individually packaged hand-knitted uteri are placed on a countertop at the lobby of the State Capitol in Phoenix, April 5, 2012. Critics of an Arizona proposal...