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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 pregnancy was the result of sexual assault.
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.
Politicians should stop invading our privacy and reject SB1394
The state of Arizona has already laid out a better path to decreasing the abortion rate – expansion of health care, and making excellent contraceptives available to more women. That is the patient-centered, evidence-based model we endorse, and one the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would like to see duplicated in every state.
Senators advance bill requiring women be asked specific reasons for getting an abortion
SB1394 would require doctors to run down a checklist of possible reasons the woman wants an abortion, including economic issues, rape, incest, relationship issues and even that a woman doesn’t want children at this time.
Arizona abortion bill approved by Senate panel
On a party-line vote, members of the Health and Human Services Committee approved adding a series of new requirements on abortion providers and those who already are required to inform women about the nature of the procedure.
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.
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 Republican-controlled state Legislature.
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of Arizona and other abortion providers more than $600,000 in attorney fees and other costs they spent fighting a since-repealed law.
Guns, gold and billboards: Hundreds of new laws to take effect
Foes of the new law expanding the school voucher program have until close of business Tuesday to submit at least 75,321 valid signatures on referendum petitions. If successful, the law remains on “hold” until November 2018 when voters get the last word on whether to ratify or veto the change.
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.”
Provision to suppress Planned Parenthood buried in budget
Republican legislative leaders are using a provision buried in the state budget in their latest attempt to defund Planned Parenthood.
Doctors weighing legal challenge to new abortion law
A legal challenge is likely against a measure mandating that doctors try to do everything possible to save the life of a baby born alive.
