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.
“I want to explain what I mean and why I’m still pregnant as I address all of you today, despite having known about the unavoidable demise of my pregnancy and despite having been to the abortion clinic on Friday, where they were equipped and prepared to perform my abortion,” she said.
Arizona has a 15-week abortion ban on the books, along with a host of restrictive laws that force patients to jump through significant hoops to terminate their pregnancy, as Burch did.
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.








