Emergency Action Needed Now!
These bills must be stopped in the Senate to keep them from reaching Governor Brewer’s desk. Please ask your Arizona Senator to VOTE NO on SB 1206 and SB 1138 today!
With acknowledgement to Planned Parenthood the letter below contains sample language you can use to draft you letter.
Dear Senator______________
As your constituent, I am writing to you today to urge you to vote no on SB 1206, the bill that seeks to deny women access to abortion care and SB 1138, the abortion ban bill.
These bills will do absolutely nothing other than increase costs, prevent access and erect barriers to health care. If we really want to make a difference in the number of unplanned pregnancies in Arizona, we must provide people with the vital information necessary to prevent unintended pregnancies from occurring in the first place.
SB 1206 is a broad, far-reaching bill designed to restrict women’s access to reproductive health care and birth control. It contains a number of draconian components that do nothing but interfere with a woman’s right to obtain abortion care.
Everything from mandated, biased counseling and a government imposed waiting period, to allowing medical providers and hospitals to deny critical health care services and information is included in this bill. Medical professionals are even allowed to refuse information about and access to emergency contraception.
This bill creates undue burdens in accessing care that do not apply to any other medical procedures.
We all want to reduce the need for abortion, but we must address this problem at its root, by addressing the epidemic that is unplanned pregnancy.
Instead, I encourage you to pass HB 2544, a bill that will require Arizona schools to provide complete and responsible sex education to our youth.
We should all be a part of the solution and SB 1206 and SB 1138 are not a solution to any problem.
Please VOTE NO on SB 1206 and SB 1138.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Below is a list of Senators. If you are not certain of your legislative district you can look it up at this link.
1 Steve Pierce spierce@azleg.gov 2 Albert Hale ahale@azleg.gov 3 Ron Gould rgould@azleg.gov 4 Jack W. Harper jharper@azleg.gov 5 Sylvia Allen sallen@azleg.gov 6 Pamela Gorman pgorman@azleg.gov 7 Jim Waring jwaring@azleg.gov 8 Carolyn Allen callen@azleg.gov 9 Robert “Bob” Burns rburns@azleg.gov 10 Linda Gray lgray@azleg.gov 11 Barbara Leff bleff@azleg.gov 12 John Nelson jnelson@azleg.gov 13 Richard Miranda rmiranda@azleg.gov 14 Debbie McCune Davis dmccunedavis@azleg.gov 15 Ken Cheuvront kcheuvront@azleg.gov 16 Leah Landrum Taylor llandrumtaylor@azleg.gov 17 Meg Burton Cahill mburtoncahill@azleg.gov 18 Russell Pearce rpearce@azleg.gov 19 Chuck Gray cgray@azleg.gov 20 John Huppenthal jhupenthal@azleg.gov 21 Jay Tibshraeny jtibshraeny@azleg.gov 22 Thayer Verschoor tvershoor@azleg.gov 23 Rebecca Rios rrios@azleg.gov 24 Amanda Aguirre aaguirre@azleg.gov 25 Manuel V. “Manny” Alvarez malvarez@azleg.gov 26 Al Melvin amelvin@azleg.gov 27 Jorge Luis Garcia jgarcia@azleg.gov 28 Paula Aboud paboud@azleg.gov 29 Linda Lopez llopez@azleg.gov 30 Jonathan Paton jpaton@azleg.gov