rabbleprochoice:

rudimentree:

aforaffort:

nonplussedbyreligion:

I went to UniteWomen.org and clicked on the link for my state.  It took me to the group’s Arizona facebook page and it was there to my horror that I found this list of bills against women created in Arizona:

Arizona

• HB 2800 - No Public Funding for Family Planning:  This bill outlines the priority for distribution of public funds for family planning services and specifies that the state or any political subdivision may not contract with any person or facility that performs nonfederally qualified abortions.  It would disquality Planned Parenthood from providing services to AHCCCS and Title X patients, leaving those without insurance and in the minority communities without access to affordable health care/reproductive health care services.  Passed 
• HB 2625 - Religious Objections Bill:   This bill states that a religiously affiliated employer can opt out of insurance coverage for contraceptives.  An employee wishing to be reimbursed for related expenses could be required to submit a claim to the employer along with evidence that the prescription is not for the purpose covered under the employer’s objection.  Republican Rep. Terri Proud wants to make a law that would force women to witness an abortion before having an abortion. Passed 

• SB 1359 - Wrongful Life/Brith: The Arizona state Senate passed a bill that establishes that a person is not liable for damages in any civil action on a claims that, but for an act or omission of the defendant, specified individuals would not or should not have been born.  It allows health care providers to omit informationn discovered during examination if the provider thinks the information may lead to the termination of pregnancy without fear of civil action against the provider. Passed 
• SB 1494 - Abortion/Personhood:  Defines ‘human being’ to include all ages from conception to full gestation.  Expands  ’informed consent’ criteria, and disclosure of possible medical riskes.  It also requires physicians to provide contact information for a Crisis Pregnancy Center.  Due to the expanded definition of ‘human being’, some forms of oral contraception and in vitro fertilization could no longer be prescribed/taken or performed. Tabled 
• SB 2036 - 20 Week Abortion Ban:  Prohibits abortion after 20 weeks except in a medical emergency with no exception for health or fetal anomaly.  Physicians will face criminal and civil penalties as well as unprofessional conduct sanctions and loss of license.  Women would be forced to carry non-viablie fetuses to term unless their lives are in immediate danger.  Women diagnosed with an illneess such as cancer could not receive chemotherapy/radiation allowing the disease to progress.  Passed 
• SB 1009 - Promote Childbirth/Adoption in Schools:    Prohibits school districts and charter schools from promoting elective abortion over childbirth and adoption.  Requires the State Board of Education to develop a handbook to promote existing curriculum frameworks and encourage school districts to recognize the moral, civic and ethical values within educational development programs for the general purpose of instilling character and ethical prinicples in students K -12 .  Schools will provide instruction that may be contrary to the values of the families of Arizona’s children. Passed 

• HR 3541 - Pre-Natal Nondiscrimination Act:  This bill  would allow a male partner or an underage woman’s parents to file an injunction that would force a woman to remain pregnant by charging her with being motivated to abort by the fetus’s race or sex, regardless of whether that’s what actually motivated the woman.  Tabled 
• SB1365 - Religious Expression Protectin:   Prohibits the government from suspending or revoking a person’s professional license for declining to provide a service because of a religious objection.  As approved, the proposal also precludes government from denying a person an appointment to a public office because of his or her exercise of religion.  Additionally, the bill says it’s not unprofessional conduct to make business decisions — including employment decisions unless otherwise prohibited by state or federal law — that adhere to “sincerely held religious beliefs.” - Passed Senate, pending House
• HB 2416 - Redefines taking the abortion pill as “surgery.” This extravagant over-regulation will result in more than half of Arizona’s current abortion providers becoming ineligible to provide care. Rural women will lose access to abortion entirely, as abortion-by-pill is the only form of care outside Phoenix and Tucson. This proposal aims to reduce  abortion early in pregnancy, since abortion-by-pill is used by women in the fifth to ninth  week of pregnancy. Passed 

• HB 2384 - This bill excludes Planned Parenthood from eligibility as a qualifying organization for The Working Poor Tax Credit. It excludes organizations that serve the working poor from qualifying under the “working poor donation tax credit” program for charitable organizations if they provide or refer for abortion care and prohibits public money from being spent on abortion care training which is already prohibited in Arizona.  Passed  

• HB 2443 – By banning race and gender selection abortion, this bill tries to create the impression that women and families are deciding to end pregnancies on those bases. Since there absolutely no evidence that this is occurring, this bill is solely designed to further damage the reputations of women who choose abortion.  Passed 

• HB 1169 (Strike-Everything Amendment) – Prohibits the Arizona Board of Nursing from determining whether abortion care is within the scope of practice of a highly trained nurse practitioner.  Passed 

• SB 1030 (Strike-Everything Amendment) - Prohibits physician’s assistants from providing abortion-by-pill.  Passed 

I knew most of them had passed, but there were a few I didn’t even know about.  Shit.

 It allows health care providers to omit informationn discovered during examination if the provider thinks the information may lead to the termination of pregnancy without fear of civil action against the provider. 

Passed 

  Women would be forced to carry non-viablie fetuses to term unless their lives are in immediate danger.  Women diagnosed with an illneess such as cancer could not receive chemotherapy/radiation allowing the disease to progress. 

Passed.

Actively harming and murdering pregnant people. 

I had to stop reading after that because of reasons. I am reblogging this so I can come back to it later.

Inform yourselves.

if you become pregnant in arizona, your life is forfeit

*not just women will be affected by this stuff.

Love,

Rabble

(Source: eyelovepi)

lipstick-feminists:

[image description: photo with text; photo shows two people in a masjid; one, a child, is sitting on the floor; to their left is a person standing during salah and wearing a khimar; text reads “OCCUPY THE MASJID/Defend women’s rights in the mosque”]

typeless:

Women have an Islamic right to enter a mosque,
Women have an Islamic right to enter through the main door,
Women have an Islamic right to visual and auditory access to the musalla (main sanctuary), 
Women have an Islamic right to pray in the musalla without being separated by a barrier, 
Women have an Islamic right to address any and all members of the congregation, 
Women have an Islamic right to hold leadership positions and as members of the board of directors and management committees, 
Women have an Islamic right to be full participants in all congregational activities, 
Women have an Islamic right to lead and participate in meetings, study sessions, and other community activities without being separated by a barrier,
Women have an Islamic right to be greeted and addressed cordially, 
Women have an Islamic right to respectful treatment and exemption from gossip and slander.

Women have an Islamic right to be full and complete participants in any and all processes of religious learning, interpretation, and authority.

Speak up. Demand your rights. Stop accepting the status quo. No one is going to change our situation but ourselves. Bring the masjid back to the way it was during the time of the Prophet Muhammad (saws). There is no back entrance to the Kaaba, there isn’t a separate room to God. We all have the right to prayer and no one should be prohibiting this, especially ourselves.

(Source: occupiedmuslim, via lipstick-feminists)