Did you know that Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano had to fight anti-choice legislators to protect women's health?

Pro-choice Governor Janet Napolitano continues to protect women's health from attack by Arizona's anti-choice legislature.  In previous years, Gov. Napolitano vetoed bills that would have imposed biased counseling and mandatory delays on women seeking abortions, and a measure that would have allowed a broad range of entities to refuse to provide health care services, including birth control, based on moral or religious objections.

In 2006 Gov. Napolitano vetoed several anti-choice bills including:  a measure that would have would have required a young woman to obtain notarized consent prior to receiving abortion care forcing families, especially from small communities, to locate a notary with insufficient guidelines to insure confidentiality, and a measure which would have prohibited state-funded health insurance plans from covering abortion care, except when necessary to save the life or health of the woman, penalizing state employees - Arizonans who are committed to serving the public - by providing them with fewer health care options than employees in the private sector.

In their attempts to chip away at our constitutional right to privacy, anti-choice lawmakers continue to push bills restricting access to abortion, while opposing commonsense prevention measures that could reduce the need for abortion.  Gov. Napolitano is a prime example of the important role pro-choice governors play in the fight against this anti-choice extremism in state legislatures. 

Howard Fischer, Napolitano Vetoes 'Fetal Pain" Notification, Ariz. Daily Star, April 12, 2006 available at http://www.azstarnet.com/news/124278 (last visited Jan 5, 2007); Robbie Sherwood, Napolitano Vetoes 4th Abortion Bill This Month, The Ariz. Republic, April 26, 2006 at 7b.