AZ: Hobbs blocks fetal rights, health emergency, election conspiracy bills

[RandySF]

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs shot down more than a dozen bills on Friday, including a GOP-backed attempt to codify fetal personhood into state law.

House Bill 2502 sought to make child support payments retroactive to the date of the first positive pregnancy test. But while Republican lawmakers framed it as a way to support impending motherhood, Democrats unanimously opposed it, condemning it as nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to introduce fetal rights into Arizona law.

Hobbs agreed, slamming the bill’s sponsor, GOP Rep. Matt Gress, for his repeated efforts to “strip Arizonans of the freedom to control their own body”. The freshman lawmaker from Phoenix authored several measures this session critics warned only served to confer more rights to fetuses and hurt women, including one seeking to increase sentencing penalties for domestic violence crimes against women. That measure has also been vetoed by Hobbs, a pro-abortion Democrat who campaigned on the promise to block any attempts from the GOP majority to continue restricting reproductive access in Arizona.

“(HB2502), guised as an effort to support families, directly threatens the reproductive rights of Arizonans,” Hobbs wrote in her veto letter.





https://www.azmirror.com/2023/05/22/hobbs-blocks-fetal-rights-health-emergency-election-conspiracy-bills/

[maspaha]

1. Thank you Gov. Katie Hobbs

[Sky Jewels]

2. Thank GOODNESS that fucking loon Kari Lake is nowhere near the governor's office.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. She would have probably said it didn't go far enough

To get a few more MAGAt votes.

[wendyb-NC]

3. Thank you, Governor Hobbs

How can a fetus, be a person deserving of more rights and protections, compared to the one who is carrying it. That's what the bill insinuates. The sordid, absurdity is mind blowing.

[Mad_Machine76]

4. "Pro-Abortion Democrat"

Not sure I like the media phrasing there. But otherwise good news. Elections have consequences.

[sakabatou]

5. I don't like it. Should be "Pro-Choice"

[Mad_Machine76]

6. Exactly my issue

[EmmaLee E]

7. I thought we had decided this war of words

with with Pro Choice and Anti-Abortion.

(Back when I marched and escorted in the 80s and 90s)

Why oh Why do we let others define the issue and players?
We can't afford to throw away any tool.

[Hekate]

8. Apparently nothing is ever settled on the side of reason & civility. See: Dobbs....

After 50 years of me being “Pro-Choice” the passage of Dobbs made me realize that the other side will stop at nothing.

They have been busily redefining the best and most effective contraception as abortifacients.

They have been redefining procedures as “abortion” that have been known to save women’s lives and have been standard of care for women since at least the time my mother was giving birth and also having bad miscarriages. Mom was born in the 1920s and had her babies during the Baby Boom years. That’s a long, long time ago.

Color me outraged and disgusted. Since the anti-abortionists want to define every medical intrusion into a uterus as an “abortion,” let me say it: Screw them. I am pro-women’s medical care. I am pro-abortion.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

9. Pro Privacy. That's what this is about, the taking away of Privacy, everyone can relate to that.

Privacy is written into many of the 50 state/nation constitutions, trumps scotus.