Arizona State Senator Shares Own Emotional Abortion Story in Floor Speech

Part of Eva Burch’s job is to make policy decisions as an elected senator in the Arizona State Legislature. But earlier this month, she found herself on the receiving end of her colleagues’ strict laws on abortion.

Burch rose at the end of a floor session on Monday to share her personal experience with an unwanted pregnancy and call for better legislation in Arizona, where abortion is outlawed after 15 weeks.

The senator recently learned that she was pregnant, but that there was no chance for her to carry the pregnancy to term. Because of Arizona’s restrictive health care laws, Burch experienced firsthand the reproductive realities that the Legislature had created.

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