Four Democratic Arizona State Senate Nominees launched ADLCC-sponsored ads yesterday to promote the issues of reproductive freedom and fully funding education. Two of the nominees, State Senator Christine Marsh in Legislative District (LD) Four and Eva Burch in LD Nine concentrated their 30-second ads on the issue of reproductive freedom. The Marsh one focuses on … Read more
Republicans always talk about how government should stay out of people’s lives except in cases when it comes to a woman’s right to choose. SB1457, the bill that could make it a crime for women to have abortions if their child has a genetic abnormality has been signed into law by Doug Ducey today (April … Read more
Republicans have spent weeks and employed multiple levels of parliamentary procedures to ram Senator Cathi Herrod’s … er … Senator Nancy Barto’s fetal personhood bill through both houses … twice. SB1457 died in the Senate earlier in April, but the Republicans brought the zombie bill back to life for a do-over. SB1457 inserts BIG government … Read more
Here we go again. Fringe reactionaries in the Arizona State Legislature have in essence, as Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman stated, codified state-sanctioned bigotry and scientific-medical ignorance by formalizing, through the passage of the Nancy Barto sponsored SB1456, the option for parents to not enroll or withdraw their children from sex education classes that … Read more
There are many education bills making their way through the State Legislature this session. Some are reintroduced holdover bills from last year that were not considered when the Capitol shut down due to the Coronavirus. Others are new measures designed by their sponsors to make public schools better. Please click here to check on the … Read more