Guns and Abortions in the State of Arizona

Fact: There is no waiting period to buy a handgun, shotgun, or rifle, nor does one need a state permit... You can even conceal carry a handgun (with a permit) in a bar now, or leave it in your car while you're at work or school or somewhere else where they aren't allowed.

Fact: There is now a 24 hour waiting period for an adult woman seeking abortion. No, not from the point in time she discovers she is pregnant or first considers an abortion or is first raped or the condom first breaks or after she comes to the conclusions that an abortion would be right for her (after what is, the majority of the time, a lengthy, difficult, painful decision making process). From the point in time when she goes to a clinic and asks for one. If she goes to a pharmacy to get the morning after pill, the pharmacy may choose not to give it to her...to restate that, a pharmacist can legally refuse to fill a prescription.

Hypothesis: If women with unwanted pregnancies started purchasing handguns and walking into bars to shoot themselves in the stomach (all done before they would have been able obtain a safe abortion) people will start really paying attention to what's going on in this state.

In areas where abortions are illegal, women and their unborn babies are DYING from having unsafe, illegal abortions performed, both by doctors and non-doctors. Every day, approximately 186 women die around the world due to complications from unsafe abortions. Worldwide, in 2000 one in 10 pregnancies ended in an unsafe abortion. In developing countries, 100-1000 women died for every 100,000 cases of illegal abortion. About 50 women a year die in America from illegal/unsafe abortions.

The figures in Ethiopa? More Ethiopian women die in hospital from illegal abortion complications than for almost any other medical reason. 70% who get one of these abortions die. The majority of deaths occur in women aged between 16 and 20. Illegal abortions account for thousands of deaths a year. (World Health Organization)

In Romania? Following the 1966 tightening of a previously liberal abortion law, abortion-related deaths rose dramatically. The number of deaths from unsafe abortions jumped from 20 per 100,000 live births in 1965 to almost 100 in 1974 and 150 in 1983. Then, in December 1989 abortion was legalized and by the end of 1990 deaths from abortion dropped to around 60 per 100,000 live births. (World Health Organization)

In Guyana? Six months after abortion was legalized in Guyana in 1995, admissions for septic and incomplete abortion dropped by 41 percent. Previously, septic abortion had been the third largest, and incomplete abortion the eighth largest, cause of admissions to the country's public hospitals. (Abortion Access Project)

http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/1r/summary/h.hb2564_07-03-09_astransmittedtogovernor.doc.htm
http://crime.about.com/od/gunlawsbystate/p/gunlaws_az.htm
http://chora.virtualave.net/illegal-abortions.htm
http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/campaigns/589.htm

Sidenote: Pharmacists can also refuse to fill prescriptions for insulin if they are vegan or Orthodox Jew (some of it comes from pig things) or prescriptions for heart and cholesterol medicine if they don't think people should have unhealthy diets, smoke, and not exercise.