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PHOENIX — An Arizona state senator told her fellow lawmakers Monday afternoon that she needs an abortion, using her experience to criticize restrictions on the procedure passed by the Legislature.
She also threw her support behind an effort for a constitutional amendment that would protect access to abortion in Arizona. “Right now, the safest and most appropriate treatment for me, and the treatment that I choose, is abortion,” she said. “But the laws that this legislature has passed has interfered with my ability to do that, along with countless others.”
Burch said she had visited an abortion clinic on Friday but was still pregnant on Monday because of Arizona’s abortion laws, which require an ultrasound, hearing about alternatives to abortion, and the state’s mandatory waiting period. "I was told that there were alternatives to abortion, parenting, or adoption among them, as if delivering a healthy baby is an option for me. It is not,” she said.
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