It did not take long for the harsh ramifications of the Pima County Court Judge’s decision allowing the pre-statehood abortion ban from 1864/1901 to go into effect.
Last week, a 14-year-old teenager from Tucson was denied medication to treat her life-threatening rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis for two days because the medicine can also be utilized to induce abortions.
According to the article, the child’s Walgreen’s pharmacy had to go through additional bureaucratic hoops, thanks to the reinstituted abortion ban, to process the request before releasing it to the patient and her mother, both of whom had to go through 48 hours of personal hell, wondering if they could access the life-saving drug.
In the article, the child’s mother stated:
“As a mother who has had to deal with my child being very ill most of her life, I was scared, I was really worried. I was shaking. I was in tears. I didn’t know what to do. “It’s her first year and she’s in high school and it feels like a dream. She’s not in a wheelchair, she has a social life and friends for the first time and a life all young people should have. Which is why there was so much anxiety for the 24 hours between being denied until finally getting the prescription approved.”
The patient’s physician was also very angry, commenting in the article:
“Do we know that now causing my patient to delay access to medical care or sometimes potentially no access to medication what kind of change will happen,” Dr. Power said. “It’s really frustrating and I’m very angry.”
This horrific experience for this child and her family should prove to all Arizonans that the taking away of women’s rights and reproductive freedom can happen here, even in cases when a woman’s right to choose is not at issue.
Make no mistake. These policies will definitely continue if Kari Lake is elected Governor next month and Abe Hamadeh is chosen as Attorney General.
Ms. Lake has called the abortion ban a great law.
That sentiment should not be comforting to the many women of Arizona who do not want to carry the child of their rapist or do not want their baby to suffer and die from incurable diseases or deformities shortly after being born.
That position should be frightening to any girl, like the 14-year-old in Tucson, who needs medication to keep them alive and may have to wait, or worse, be denied the prescription because of that ban.
Reacting to the incident of the child being denied vital medication for two days, Arizona Secretary of State Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Katie Hobbs commented in a campaign press release:
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The suffering of others is Cathi Herrod and fake conservative troll boi John Kavanagh’s favorite part.
First they impose their personal religious beliefs on others.
Then they sit back and enjoy the suffering they cause.
When confronted say it’s Gawd’s will oh well nothing they can do!
If this happens one time it happens a thousand, because children and their parents will want some privacy in these matters and not have their names in the media.
But the fake SCOTUS says we don’t have a right to privacy.
JFC I hey-ate these people for what they do to others.