Meeting Time: October 11, 2022 at 2:30pm MST
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Agenda Item

1 Resolution Declaring Council's Opposition to the United States Supreme Court Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson (Resolution 22069)

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    Ellen Davis, Ms. over 1 year ago

    I urge the City Council to take every available action or inaction to protective reproductive freedom and return decision making to the living breathing persons whose bodies and lives are at stake. Just as this county cannot accept Sharia law, we must reject the Dodds decision.

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    Ellen Davis, Ms. over 1 year ago

    I urge the City Council to take every available action or inaction to protective reproductive freedom and return decision making to the living breathing persons whose bodies and lives are at stake. Just as this county cannot accept Sharia law, we must reject the Dodds decision.

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    Nick Collins over 1 year ago

    Abortion is a part of healthcare for women. So keep the legislature and courts out of doctor offices

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    Jonathan Hohn over 1 year ago

    I fully support this resolution and urge the council to pass it.

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    marie mi over 1 year ago

    The City of Phoenix, like Tucson, needs to be a leader in protecting its living, breathing residents. Show the rest of the country that not everyone who lives in this now backward 19th Century state is against womens rights. That we, Phoenix residents, care about women and girls reproductive freedom. The right to control their bodies and NOT the government. I am so repulsed that after 40 years I am leaving Arizona for a blue state where women and girls are NOT considered chattel or second class.

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    Michael Robers over 1 year ago

    As a physician that treats diseases and uses medications that affect pregnancy and pregnancy related outcomes, I can attest that abortion is fundamental and necessary Healthcare. I support this resolution.

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    Bella Livshiz over 1 year ago

    I fully support any pregnancy related decisions, including termination, to be made by the pregnant person, with the support of their doctor, and based on factual, up to date scientific information. Further, I support this to be a private matter without the intrusion to the government.

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    Christopher Davis over 1 year ago

    I support the council’s resolution to oppose the Supreme Court’s dangerous, unethical, transparently misogynistic ruling. The government has no right to dictate a woman’s choice in reproductive care.

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    Jennifer Kirshner over 1 year ago

    I am in behavioral health and have witnessed the distress recent policy changes have had on my clients and thier families. This is not about politics or policy this about the wide spectrum of healthcare that should be available to an individual. I plea with each of you to allow for Phoenix to become a welcoming place that embraces rather than scorns.

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    Chris Mead over 1 year ago

    Access to abortion is a human right. I support this resolution and the continued efforts by the city of Phoenix to protect the rights of its citizens against the unjust and retrograde actions taken by the state government.

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    Karen Gresham over 1 year ago

    As a resident of Phoenix and someone who could be effected by this law, I fully support the council’s resolution to opppose the Supreme Court decision and state laws against abortion, and to support access to reproductive health care. Thank you.

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    Bailey Spears over 1 year ago

    I strongly support this resolution and urge the City to work with community leaders from the affected groups in "establishing law enforcement priorities" and make those priorities available to the public. I also urge the City to establish specific guidelines, to the extent possible, to ensure that the Maricopa County Attorney's Office does not prosecute abortion patients and providers.

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    Gregory Altschuh over 1 year ago

    I respectfully support the resolution to oppose the Dobbs decision. Reproductive rights for both women - and men - are human rights that should be respected and indeed protected by our city government. Women's rights to reproductive health care certainly should not be curtailed by the government. They should be a matter of personal privacy without government intrusion. Query: would the men on this council support a government ban on their use of Viagra?

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    Kristin Byer over 1 year ago

    Let’s continue to allow safe access to women’s healthcare. The patients and their doctors should be the ones discussing what is best in the patient’s situation.

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    Stacy Burnett over 1 year ago

    I urge you to support this resolution. Restore our freedoms to bodily autonomy, & to our right to privacy. We deserve to exist in our city without fear of criminalization or discrimination based on reproductive status. Legislators have no business legislating the private care and treatment between a person and their physicians. Law makers have a duty to serve the public. To enforce a law, before AZ was even a state, that intentionally causes harm, and even kills people, is ghastly.

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    Lauren Bradley over 1 year ago

    Democracy itself is at risk when any one group is stripped of its rights. Women no longer have equal rights in AZ. Men have bodily autonomy and women do not. Arizona must move forward and treat all of its citizens with equity. Religious beliefs cannot play a role in a society that constitutionally supports a citizen's right to practice any religion or none. Going back to a territorial law that predates statehood is both absurd and dangerous. I urge the council to adopt this resolution.

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    Kelsey Breecher over 1 year ago

    Women should have a right to choose what happens to her body. The downstream effects of an unwanted pregnancy include traumatization to the mother and the child, result in a higher risk of abuse and risky/illegal behaviors. Data shows that crime rates dropped tremendously after abortion was legalized. We should be leading the world in this effort of freedom and women should finally be seen as equal as men in this regard. What would you want for your 13 year old rape victim? Stop the trauma.

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    Emma Sounart over 1 year ago

    This resolution is significant to supporting the healthcare of women in Arizona. I support access to the full spectrum of reproductive healthcare--including abortion. I plead with the council to adopt this resolution.

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    Martina McConnon over 1 year ago

    I want the government to stay out when women have to make deeply personal decisions like family planning. It's dangerous to turn back to laws from over 100 years ago when women are such an important part of society today, having jobs, deciding when to have children that they or their family can actually support. What's next on the chopping block? The right to vote? Being forced to carry a child to term by a law is a cruel and harmful idea. Nobody is having abortions for fun by the way.

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    Wanda Kolomyjec over 1 year ago

    It is unconscionable that we still having this conversation in 2022. We are the laugh of the international community (and they pity us). Someone else's religious convictions do not belong between my doctor and me.