Clarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking/trending news blogger for MSNBC Digital. She was previously a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News.
On the floor of the Arizona state Senate on Monday, Sen. Eva Burch announced that she was getting an abortion for a nonviable pregnancy. Flanked by a number of Democratic state senators, Burch spoke in detail about the how the laws passed by her colleagues had 'interfered' with her ability to terminate her pregnancy.
She said she was made to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound at the abortion clinic, to sit through in-person counseling during which a doctor was legally bound to read medically unnecessary and inaccurate information to her about abortions, and to wait 24 hours after that to obtain the procedure. Burch gave her colleagues personal insight into the consequences of the restrictive abortion laws that most of them have supported.
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