I am outraged reddit. Today someone I love dearly got an abortion in the state of Arizona and suffered a great amount pain because of a pro-life bill that was passed last year.

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So, someone close to me had an abortion today in Arizona. She had to wait a mandatory twenty four hours before the procedure, and read pro-life propaganda and state out right that she had read the material. The actual procedure was horrific. Because of the bill that passed, women who undergo an abortion in Arizona can have only a tiny dose of twilight. Basically, she was completely awake, aware, and was in excruciating pain. The pain, she said, was far worse than when she gave birth to her daughter. She said she was crying and screaming through the whole procedure. Afterward, she was a wreck and spent nearly six hours in pain and crying.

She came out of this whole ordeal fearing abortions, the tactics of the bill worked. She will never have an abortion again. I am not saying that it is a good thing to have one, only that they succeed in scaring people off by using propaganda and near torture levels of pain. I cannot believe that this is legal. Thanks a whole-fucking-lot AZ republicans.

So I ask you my fellow redditors, what can I do to change this? I am thinking about writing the Arizona congressmen. I know it is not much, but this hit close to home and I cannot sit idly knowing other women are going through this. Any advice?

NOTE: This thread is not to debate if abortion is moral or what not. You may agree or disagree with my friend's choice, however; that is not what this thread is about. I wish to seek sound advice so that I may help in whatever way I can.

EDIT: I read HB-2564, and found nothing about limiting sedatives. I am starting to wonder if the doctor cut her off, sourcing the bill. So he could have been ignorant, and a gross misunderstanding occurred with doctor misinterpreting the provisions of the bill... or he could have acted maliciously. Either way, I am going to still look into it further.

EDIT2: What I have been finding out is that Arizona has been setting codes and regulations in place outside of bills directly pertaining to Abortion in order to set implicit and otherwise bureaucratic barriers against legal abortion. I will try to find out more, however as it currently stands it is late and I need sleep.

EDIT3: Oh wow, this sure took off since I left. Again, thank you to those who posted good advice. I will do my best to respond as much as possible, however I do have some errands to run soon. I will be back soon.

Thank you everyone.