By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Arizonan businesses would be on the hook for half a million dollars in damages if they refuse a religious exemption from an employee who later experiences significant injury as a result of getting vaccinated under a proposal advancing in the GOP-controlled legislature. Employers who both deny…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Dana has known she’s a girl since she could talk, but Republican senators want to force her to grow up as a man and put her doctors in jail for providing medical treatments aimed at combating gender dysphoria. A proposal from Sen. Wendy Rogers — who…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — New legislation that limits the power of future Arizona governors to declare a public health emergency has passed the Senate Government Committee with a slim margin and now awaits debate by the full Senate. Senate Bill 1009 caps a governor’s state of emergency proclamation for reasons of…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — In his State of the State speech earlier this month, Gov. Doug Ducey claimed that women are being charged up to $800 in processing fees for rape kits — which would be illegal under federal law — but it’s unclear whether that’s actually happening. To back…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick has been a source of comfort for women dealing with unwanted pregnancies in the Phoenix area for more than 25 years. But an attempt to replicate Texas’ sweeping new abortion law that lets citizens police abortion restrictions could tie her hands. Arizona is…
