Press Release
Reproductive Freedom for All Arizona Celebrates Legislative Session Wins
For Immediate Release: Monday, June 30, 2025
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Reproductive Freedom for All Arizona Celebrates Legislative Session Wins
Phoenix, AZ — Last week, the Arizona State Legislature adjourned sine die after passing this year’s budget, which Governor Hobbs went on to sign. Reproductive Freedom for All Arizona celebrates several legislative victories this session.
In the budget, Reproductive Freedom for All Arizona organizers stopped the Republicans’ efforts to gut AHCCCS (Medicaid), which covers 50% of births in Arizona, and blocked all anti-abortion legislation from being enshrined into law. MAGA extremists tried to pass ballot referrals that would have gutted the Arizona Abortion Access Act of its most important protections and make future attempts to amend the Arizona constitution more difficult (HCR2058 and HCR2025). Republicans pushed this legislation despite Prop 139 winning every legislative district in the state.
Reproductive Freedom for All Director of Arizona Campaigns Athena Salman released the following statement:
“Reproductive Freedom for All Arizona is proud to celebrate many legislative wins, secured through the work of reproductive freedom champions in the Governor’s seat and legislature, and organizing efforts driven by our members. Anti-abortion extremists in the legislative majority tried their hardest to render Prop 139 ineffective, but they failed. They tried to make up for their losses in the last election by cheating, but we stopped them. We will continue to fight for Arizonans who have made it clear that we want the freedom to make our own decisions about our reproductive health care, not the government. We know our work to protect reproductive freedom will never stop, and we will show up even larger and stronger next time.”
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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.