By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — With the stroke of a pen Wednesday, Gov. Doug Ducey made it illegal for Arizona women to seek an abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy — even if they became pregnant because they were raped. The legislation, which will go into effect 90 days after the…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — In a move against transgender youth in Arizona, Gov. Doug Ducey signed new laws barring them from participating in girls’ and womens’ sports, and from obtaining gender reassignment surgery. Senate Bill 1138 prohibits doctors from providing genital reassignment surgery to minors, including mastectomies or mammoplasties to feminize…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Republican legislators want voters to make it unconstitutional for Arizona public schools, colleges and universities to teach so-called “critical race theory,” a move that will come at the detriment of quality education, critics say. The proposed constitutional amendment would capitalize on a nationwide GOP movement to…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror An eleventh-hour proposal that would make sweeping changes to how Arizona schools are funded won Republican approval on a legislative panel Monday, despite the devastating budget cuts that critics say many schools will face if it becomes law. The amendment attached to Senate Bill 1269 increases total K-12 funding by…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Republicans in the House pushed through legislative proposals that restrict transgender children’s access to girls sports and gender-affirming surgeries. Republican legislators defended the proposals as necessary legislative protections. Senate Bill 1138, in particular, elicited heated rhetoric. The bill would ban surgeries for minors performed for the purpose…
