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AZ SB1550

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/4/2020

Primary Sponsor

Rebecca Rios

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-fourth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2020)

AI Summary

  • Amends Arizona Revised Statutes Section 36-2154 regarding the right to refuse participation in abortion procedures on moral or religious grounds.

  • Removes language that specifically extended conscience protections to pharmacies and their employees, effectively eliminating pharmacist objection rights to abortion medication and emergency contraception.

  • Retains protections for hospitals, physicians, and other hospital staff members who object to abortion procedures on moral or religious grounds.

  • Removes the requirement that pharmacies return patient prescriptions when refusing to dispense abortion medication or emergency contraception.

Legislative Description

Abortion; objection; pharmacists; repeal

Pharmacists

Last Action

Senate read second time

2/5/2020

Full Bill Text

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