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The Sinister Motives Behind Challenges to Medicaid Funding of Planned Parenthood

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Could state Medicaid funding challenges be designed to test the limits of civil rights enforcement statutes?

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Federal Court Blocks Arizona Efforts To De-Fund Planned Parenthood

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A federal court on Friday issued a preliminary injunction preventing the state from stripping Planned Parenthood of funding.

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Supreme Court To Review Arizona Law That Voters Prove Citizenship After the Election

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On Monday the Supreme Court agreed to review whether Arizona’s requirement that voters provide proof of citizenship prior to registering conflicts with federal law.

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Fearing Funds Will Go to Planned Parenthood, Arizona Anti-Choice Groups Oppose Tax Hike

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Arizona anti-choice organizations are so focused on keeping money from Planned Parenthood that they’re fighting against proposals that don’t fund the group now—just in case it might get funded in the future.

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Briefs in Support of Arizona’s Pre-Viability Ban Show The Evolution of a Legal Challenge to Roe

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Briefs filed in support of Arizona’s 20 week abortion ban show the evolution of the anti-choice legal strategy against Roe v. Wade.

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The Call: A Choice No Mother Should Face

As the rights of women are increasingly under attack in the continuing “war on women,” an entire population deeply affected by this conversation continues to be largely ignored: immigrant women.

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Affirmative Action, Marriage Equality, and Voting Rights: A Look at the New Supreme Court Term

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Last year’s Supreme Court term may have been historic, but in many ways it was just a warm-up.

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As Access to Safe Abortion Care Diminishes in Arizona, Rural Women Face Growing Hurdles

Cathi Herrod. Photo: MyGay.Net.

Now that only doctors can perform abortions, rural women in the state have very limited options.

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Changes in Reporting Methods May Be Responsible for Increased Rate of Abortion in Arizona

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It looks like one of the most anti-choice states in the nation is having a rise in its abortion rate.  But is it real?

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Santorum Headlines Arizona Right-To-Life Benefit

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Will they be celecrating being the most anti-choice state in the nation?

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