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Arizona - Center for Reproductive Rights
Arizona - Center for Reproductive Rights
Restrictions On October 7, 2022, the Arizona Court of Appeals enjoined enforcement of the state’s pre-Roe ban, which prohibits almost all abortions with a very limited life exception,[1]Ariz. Rev. Stat. §§ 13-3603, 13-3605; Nelson v. Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson, 19 Ariz. App. 142, 505 P.2d 580 (1973), rev’d Planned Parenthood v. Brnovich, No. C127867 […]
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Arizona - Center for Reproductive Rights
Aftershock | Documentary Film
Aftershock | Documentary Film
Following the preventable deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved fathers galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises of our time.
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Aftershock | Documentary Film
“Aftershock”: Film Explores Disproportionate Black Maternal Mortality in U.S., Could Worsen After Roe
“Aftershock”: Film Explores Disproportionate Black Maternal Mortality in U.S., Could Worsen After Roe
With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the battleground for abortion access now shifts to the states, even as the U.S. faces the worst rates of maternal mortality among all rich nations, with Black maternal mortality three to four times higher than the national average. Now a new documentary examines the crisis of Black maternal mortality through the families of two young Black women who died after giving birth. “Aftershock” is co-directed by Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt, who join us to discuss how Black women navigate a healthcare system built against them and efforts underway to reduce racial disparities. “We know that Black women’s health and infants’ health is the marker of the health of a nation,” notes Lee. “In a system that puts profit over people, doesn’t listen and center birthing people already, Black women are even more affected by this due to the systemic racism that’s ingrained into our system,” adds Eiselt.
·democracynow.org·
“Aftershock”: Film Explores Disproportionate Black Maternal Mortality in U.S., Could Worsen After Roe
Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen
Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen
BISBEE, Ariz. (AP) — MJ was a tiny, black-haired girl, just 5 years old, when her father admitted to his bishop that he was sexually abusing her. The father, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and an admitted pornography addict, was in counseling with his bishop when he revealed the abuse.
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Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen
“Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down”: AZ Rep Survives Shooting, Fights Aphasia & Pushes for Gun Control
“Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down”: AZ Rep Survives Shooting, Fights Aphasia & Pushes for Gun Control
President Biden is hosting an event today at the White House with victims of gun violence to mark the signing of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and one of the participating high-profile shooting survivors who will attend is former Arizona Congressmember Gabby Giffords, who survived a 2011 assassination attempt. As mass shootings continue to plague the United States, we speak to the directors of “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down,” a new documentary premiering this week that follows Giffords as she fights to recover from the 2011 attack, and her subsequent advocacy for gun safety legislation. Giffords was just honored last week with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her activism. The film follows “the fight that this woman has had to come back herself and then to come back as a public figure fighting to try to do something about the epidemic of gun violence in our country,” says Julie Cohen, co-director of “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down.” Former President Barack Obama, who attempted to pass gun safety legislation with Giffords’s help but failed, is featured in the documentary during a moment that qualified as “the most disappointed and the angriest he had ever been as president,” adds fellow co-director Betsy West. Cohen and West also directed “My Name Is Pauli Murray” and the Academy Award-nominated ”RBG.”
·democracynow.org·
“Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down”: AZ Rep Survives Shooting, Fights Aphasia & Pushes for Gun Control
Someone Knows Something
Someone Knows Something
Host David Ridgen and investigative journalist Amanda Robb dig into the 1998 murder of her uncle, a New York doctor killed for performing abortions. They uncover a network of anti-abortion movements linked to violence in North America and Europe. Twenty years later, debates about reproductive rights are heating up in the U.S. What can we learn from the past? Previous seasons: S1: Adrien McNaughton. S2: Sheryl Sheppard. S3: Dee & Moore. S4: Greavette. S5: Kerrie Brown. S6: Donald Izzett Jr. For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.
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Someone Knows Something
Federal court hears lawsuit on Arizona 'Personhood Provision'
Federal court hears lawsuit on Arizona 'Personhood Provision'
A federal judge will decide whether a provision in a 2021 law could be used to make bring criminal charges against doctors who perform otherwise-legal abortions, including those to save the life of the mother.Attorney Jessica Sklarsky of the Center for Reproductive Rights told Judge Douglas Rayes on Friday that Arizona has long interpreted its laws against child abuse, child endangerment and assault to not apply to legal abortions.
·kjzz.org·
Federal court hears lawsuit on Arizona 'Personhood Provision'
Big Arizona Provider Won't Resume Abortions Despite Ruling
Big Arizona Provider Won't Resume Abortions Despite Ruling
Arizona’s largest abortion provider will not resume the procedures in Pima County even though a federal judge has blocked a fetal "personhood” law it feared could lead to criminal charges against doctors and others.
·usnews.com·
Big Arizona Provider Won't Resume Abortions Despite Ruling
The Dobbs Decision: What It Means For The Law And The High Court - Law360
The Dobbs Decision: What It Means For The Law And The High Court - Law360
The U.S. Supreme Court is prepared to strike down the landmark 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade that made abortion legal around the country, according to a leaked draft opinion penned by Justice Samuel Alito and published Monday by Politico. Here, Law360 looks at the impact of the court's draft decision and the leak.
·law360.com·
The Dobbs Decision: What It Means For The Law And The High Court - Law360
U.S. House Passes Bill to Protect Right to Travel for Abortion
U.S. House Passes Bill to Protect Right to Travel for Abortion
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U.S. House Passes Bill to Protect Right to Travel for Abortion