For the first 25 minutes, the Arizona Senate’s floor session on March 18th was unremarkable.
Then, state Sen. Eva Burch stood up and announced to her colleagues that she was pregnant, and planned to get an abortion.
Detailing a deeply personal medical history of past miscarriages, Burch told her fellow lawmakers that she made the decision to seek an abortion after discovering that her fetus is not viable.
“I don’t think people should have to justify their abortions,” Burch, a Democrat, told the chamber.
Been saying this since the Dobbs leak was announced. They’re going to kill and traumatize people—though it’s certainly safe to say they already have—and they need to be held accountable. I don’t care if they aren’t medical professionals; in fact, that’s one reason they shouldn’t have any say in this in the first place. They should be dragged into abject financial destitution for the harm they are causing.