Reproductive Justice for Our Bodies, Our Families, Our Communities.
Let’s Thrive
The Arizona Proactive Reproductive Justice Alliance works to advance a future for Arizona where everyone has access to the care and resources they need to thrive.
The Arizona Proactive Reproductive Justice Alliance is a community-led group of individuals and organizations working to advance Reproductive Justice in Arizona. To get involved, contact us.
ACLU of Arizona
Amnesty International
AZ AANHPI For Equity
Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective
Center For Reproductive Rights
Desert Star Institute for Family Planning
National Institute for Reproductive Health
Patient Forward
State Innovation Exchange
Additionally, our group includes individual organizers from across Arizona
We Deserve Care in Our Communities
No matter our race or income, our background or beliefs, we want the freedom to decide what happens to our bodies. We deserve reproductive healthcare, including abortion care, in our own communities.
Anti-Abortion Politicians Have Enacted Over Fifty Abortion Restrictions
Right-wing politicians have enacted over fifty abortion bans and restrictions in Arizona to advance their agenda. They want to control us and decide our futures for us, taking away our freedom to get the care we need, vote in fair elections and decide whether and when we grow our families. These same politicians are handing the money they take from our healthcare, our schools and our children’s futures to their corporate donors.
Arizona’s 50+ Bans and Restrictions Cause Harm
Abortion bans and restrictions are more likely to harm communities who already face barriers to getting health care. This includes Black, Indigenous, Latina/x, Asian, and Pacific Islander communities; communities living with low incomes; individuals with disabilities; undocumented individuals; and people living in rural areas. No one should have to leave their state to get health care. And for a host of reasons, not everyone is able to travel for care or can afford to. For too long, dozens of laws in our legal code have pushed critical, time-sensitive abortion care out of reach. It is time to dismantle these barriers.
We Must Repeal Harmful Laws
By joining together to repeal these laws, we have the power to create a future where our families are cared for. Someone you love might need an abortion someday. Together, we can ensure that when that day comes, they are able to get the care they need.
We Can Build the Future We Want, Together
It’s up to us!
Each of us has a role to play in ensuring people can access abortion care.
Demand that our legislators stop attacking pregnant people and their doctors. Call on them to support proactive policies that remove barriers and expand access to the care people need:
Donate to Arizona abortion funds that are supporting people who need care:
fundabortionaz.comDefend our clinics and our providers and make sure they keep their doors open to serve their communities:
Keep Our ClinicsSupport pregnant people and abortion seekers, and ensure they have good information about their options.
ineedana.comVote to hold lawmakers accountable and join efforts to elect leaders who want to help Arizonans thrive:
What’s going on in Arizona?
Anti-abortion lawmakers have put nearly 50 abortion restrictions in place in Arizona:
Fetal Personhood Laws that make an embryo or fetus full legal persons under Arizona law, including criminal laws. Fetal personhood laws are dangerous. They reinterpret all other laws in the state and deprive pregnant people of their rights.
Abortion Bans threaten severe civil and criminal penalties for providing abortion care. These laws ban abortions in certain circumstances or at points in pregnancy.
Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provision (TRAP) Laws, are medically-unnecessary restrictions and requirements aimed at healthcare providers. They make it harder and more expensive to provide abortion care. These laws are meant to force abortion clinics to close.
Provider Restrictions limit who can provide abortion care or under what circumstances, even if they have the appropriate medical training. These laws keep abortion care out of reach for many rural Arizonans. Some laws target education, making it harder to train new abortion providers.
Funding Bans prohibit funding for abortion care. These laws mean that many Arizonans cannot use their public health insurance, like Medicaid, to pay for an abortion. They also prohibit other government support for abortion care.
Who is affected by these bans and restrictions?
Arizona has dozens of policies that limit sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion. These policies mostly impact historically marginalized and oppressed groups. This includes low-income families, rural residents, immigrants, disabled, Black, Indigenous, and people of color. These communities experience physical, medical, emotional and financial harm because of these policies.
These same legislators are making it harder to vote, attacking trans people, and undermining education.
We need laws that help people, not harass them!
Good policies need your support!
Responsible lawmakers work with their communities to advance policies that actually help people and support their bodily autonomy, their families, and their futures. Broad and proactive policies are needed to remove barriers and expand access to the care people need. This includes the full range of sexual and reproductive health care for Arizonans, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much they earn. These policies should be reflective of the needs of Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. They must be crafted with the expertise of those communities’ leaders. Involving these leaders will help create stronger policies and a more impactful, longer-lasting movement.
It’s up to us!
Make your voice heard.
Contact your legislators and tell them to get to work improving the lives of Arizonans.