Abortions are again legal in Arizona but providers told Rep. Ruben Gallego on that care still is hindered by politics.
Abortions are legal in Arizona but providers told Rep. Ruben Gallego Tuesday that reproductive care in the state is still hindered by politics.
"The ongoing threat of the near-total ban on abortions looms big," said Brittany Fonteno, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Arizona, which is the state's largest abortion provider."Arizona's ban is one of the most cruel and extreme in the country. It has no regard for the health and lives of people across the state, including survivors of rape and incest."
"It's such a complicated issue and the most important reason why I say it's a complicated issue is because when it gets this complicated, the government should not be involved," Gallego said."At the end of the day, this is why we trust women, for them to take care of their bodies, and government should not be involved in that."The roundtable discussion was held nearly four months after the U.S. Supreme Court'sto reverse the nearly 50-year-old landmark Roe v.
While Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson ruled in Brnovich's favor, the Arizona Court of Appeals on Oct. 7 put the pre-statehood era abortion law on hold until a full appeal of the earlier ruling on it is heard. The appellate court's action once again legalized abortion in Arizona, at least for now.
The patient told Gibson that the only thing she needed to recover from the trauma of the incest was to terminate the pregnancy, but Gibson had to tell her she would not be able to obtain an abortion in Arizona. The woman had to travel to California to obtain an abortion, she said.Prior to the 15-week ban, surgical abortions in Arizona were legal up until fetal viability, which is typically at 23 weeks to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
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