A settlement has been reached in a discrimination case filed by an Arizona doctor who alleged he had been fired as a result of his pro-choice position. Dr. Christopher Carey, who formerly led the Maricopa Medical Center’s ob-gyn residency program originally filed suit in 2005 and alleged that he was harassed and removed from his […]
The Arizona Department of Health Services announced Friday that they will apply for a $1 million federal abstinence only grant. According to a Department of Health Services press release, the funds would be used for programs that emphasize abstinence and are aimed at 12-18 year olds. A spokesman for Arizona Governor Jan Brewer told The […]
Arizona state legislators introduced a bill this week that would allow pharmacists to refuse to honor prescriptions for emergency contraceptives due to moral objections. The legislation requires minors to receive notarized parental consent prior to an abortion, requires a 24-hour waiting period prior to an abortion, and specifies that women must be briefed on assistance […]
A settlement of $850,000 from a 2004 rape case has resulted in reform of sexual harassment and misconduct response policies at Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University. An unnamed victim accused student-athlete Darnel Henderson of rape in 2004 and filed a lawsuit alleging that Arizona State had “placed her in […]
Republican legislators in the Arizona state House Health and Human Services Committee this week approved a bill that would criminalize late term abortion except in cases where a woman’s life is endangered. The bill is intended to provide for state prosecution that mirrors federal law that bans late term abortions. According to Capitol Media Services, […]
An anti-affirmative action ballot measure in Arizona will not be on the November ballot. The measure was decertified based on the signatures collected, but its decertification was challenged last week. A lawsuit to restore the measure to the ballot was officially abandoned Friday by supporters of the measure, who cited an inability to review all […]
A last-minute lawsuit filed Wednesday in Arizona seeks to put a decertified affirmative action ban back on the ballot. The lawsuit argues that election officials in four counties wrongly deemed a number of voter signatures to be invalid and that if these signatures were recounted, then the measure would qualify, according to the Associated Press. […]
The anti-affirmative action ballot measure scheduled to be on the November ballot in Arizona has been disqualified. After review by Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer and county recorders, the measure (see PDF) fell short of the 230,047 signatures needed to qualify. The measure would have banned affirmative action for women and people of color […]
A lawsuit that challenges the language of the proposed gay marriage amendment in Arizona was filed Friday. Secretary of State Jan Brewer and Attorney General Terry Goddard disagree on the measure’s description. If passed, both agree that the measure would amend the Arizona State constitution and would define marriage as being between one man and […]
A legal challenge of the proposed anti-affirmative action ballot initiative in Arizona was filed Monday. The challenge was filed by Protect Arizona’s Freedom, a coalition of community leaders, organizations, and volunteers. The lawsuit questions “the validity of over 100,000 signatures based on evidence of 13 categories of fraudulent and illegal signature-gathering tactics.” If the lawsuit […]
The Arizona House Committee on Natural Resources and Public Safety voted 6-3 last week to approve a ban on the so-called “partial-birth abortion” procedure. The measure, SB 1048, is similar to the ban Governor Janet Napolitano vetoed earlier this month. Napolitano stated that the bill she vetoed included a harsher criminal penalty than the federal […]
The Arizona State Legislature passed two anti-choice bills this week. Both bills will now go to Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, who has vetoed similar legislation in the past, according to the Women’s Daily Health Policy Report. One bill, HB 2263, outlines methods for judges to use when assessing applications from minors to obtain an abortion […]
In a letter to the federal government last week, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano rejected $1 million in Title V federal funds for abstinence only education programs. This move makes Arizona the 16th state to refuse the federal matching funds for abstinence only. “With the restrictions, unfortunately we’re not able to give kids all the information […]
The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned an injunction issued by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop an Arizona voter identification law from being enforced in the upcoming elections. The ruling means that the voter identification law Ñ which requires voters to present a photo ID with their current street address or two […]
A federal district court judge yesterday declined to block an Arizona state law requiring voters to present an Arizona driver’s license or state-issued photo ID card, or two forms of approved non-photo forms of identification, such as a birth certificate and utility bill dated within the past 90 days. The new law also requires proof […]
In the hopes of righting a historical wrong while honoring the first American servicewoman killed in Iraq, Squaw Peak in Arizona– named for the derogatory term for Native American woman– will now be called Piestewa Peak, after Private Lori Piestewa. Piestewa, a member of the Hopi Tribe from Arizona, also was the first Native American […]
Students in Arizona are rallying support around the nation against an anti-abortion fundraising campaign led by professional baseball players and executives. Last month, Jerry Colangelo, Arizona Diamondbacks CEO, announced the Battin’ 1000 campaign to raise $1 million for the American Life League (ALL), an organization that opposes abortion in all cases, including rape, incest, and […]
Arizona’s Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that the ban on using Medicaid funding to perform medically necessary abortions on low-income women was unconstitutional, reversing a state appeals court ruling. Until this ruling, the state only allowed Medicaid funding for abortions in the case of rape or incest, or when the pregnant woman’s life was […]
This week U.S. District Judge Raner Collins, of Arizona, upheld the state’s parental consent law. Planned Parenthood had filed suit against the 1999 law, which outlawed minors from having abortions without the permission of a parent or judge. Approximately 19 states require that minors have the permission of at least one parent in order to […]
A Superior Court Judge ruled that Arizona lawmakers overstepped their bounds in restricting state-paid abortions only to cases of rape or incest or where the mother’s life is in danger. Judge Kenneth Fields said that legislators are bound to fund “all medically necessary abortions” for poor women; making exceptions, he argues, is unconstitutional. Arizona’s Health […]
