Planned Parenthood has ended abortion services in three Arizona cities to comply with recent state laws that restrict abortions. Starting yesterday, women will no longer be able to terminate pregnancies at the Planned Parenthood clinics in Prescott Valley, Flagstaff, and Yuma, all of which offered abortions through medication. Women can still receive surgical and medical abortions in the Tucson and Phoenix areas, but those services will cease at some suburban locations. That anti-choice rubbish is just stupid and if Arizona are going to crap on the rights of women like that, then there could be more out-of-state and back-alley abortions among pregnant women in Arizona.
Who is responsible for this travesty? An Arizona appeals court that stupidly allowed key parts of a 2009 state law restricting abortions to take effect. The law also includes a requirement that women see a doctor in person the day before getting an abortion to hear about risks and alternatives (which can be useful because you need to have as much info as you can get before you go in) and allows healthcare workers to refuse to participate in abortions for moral or religious reasons (which is just stupid because if you are in the medical profession and you work for a place that performs abortions, then it is your duty to perform abortions, and if you don't like it, you can always quit or just not turn up in the hope of getting fired).
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