Explanations vary on drop in Arizona abortions
New figures Monday show that fewer abortions were performed in Arizona than in the prior three years. But abortion rights advocates and foes of the procedure have sharply different reasons to explain the numbers. And they don't even agree which numbers are the most significant.
State agrees to hold off on enforcing 2015 medication abortion law
The state has agreed not to enforce a law requiring doctors to tell patients that medication abortions can be reversed until a legal challenge of the law goes to trial.
Chandler mom accused of spending kids’ public scholarship money on shopping spree
A Chandler woman has been indicted on charges of spending money from a state scholarship program on a Wal-Mart shopping spree and a family planning clinic.
Evangelical lobby equates abortion with slavery
The head of a powerful Evangelical-Christian lobby in Arizona today upped the rhetorical ante against Planned Parenthood by calling abortion a “modern-day slave trade.”
Based on a lie, late-term abortion leaves hospital staff emotionally scarred
The second trimester abortion at Good Samaritan Hospital in 2010 that left doctors and nurses in tears wasn’t necessary to save the life of Chalice Zeitner, who claimed to have late-term cancer, and her daughter Aryana was born alive and might have been saved.
Clinics now required to inform state of final destination of fetal tissue
Abortion providers must now tell the state what happens to tissue from abortions in an effort to ensure nothing is being illegally sold despite the lack of evidence anyone in Arizona is breaking any laws.
Dehumanizing, not ‘disappointing’
What has a heart, lungs, liver, kidney, thymus, but not basic human rights? According to Planned Parenthood, preborn children. Like millions of Americans, I was horrified to see a top Planned Parenthood official callously discussing the strategic dismemberment of preborn children for the possible sale of their organs.
Arizona doctors get reprieve from having to tell women medication abortions can be reversed
The state has agreed to delay the enforcement of a law requiring doctors to advise women who are seeking medication abortions that the procedure can be reversed.
Reversing abortions: Procedure underlying new Arizona law questioned by health professionals
Pro-life medical professionals in Arizona are spreading the word about a controversial procedure that some claim can reverse the effects of a medication abortion, even as other health care providers are challenging a new law that requires doctors to inform their patients of the procedure.
FBI agent’s description raises question about whether aborted baby was born alive
The doctor who performed the abortion on a woman who stands accused of swindling taxpayers for the procedure may have broken a state law that requires doctors to try and resuscitate babies who survive.
Arizona AG’s office: Woman faked cancer to get an abortion
Charges have been filed against a woman accused of faking cancer in 2010 to get Arizona to pay for her late-term abortion, state prosecutors said Tuesday.
Gov. Doug Ducey signs abortion medication requirement bill
Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a bill requiring abortion providers to tell women they can reverse the effects of a drug-induced abortion.