Transcripts For CSPAN3 Arizona 20240702

Legislation. This is just two hours. Quick senator, mr. Majority leader, senator kearns, how do you vote . Senator bullock . Yes, mr. President , i rise to explain my vote. Please proceed. It is an unusual for arizona to generate headlines in mid november, 2022, phoenix, arizona made national headlines. In one article the headline read body of preborn child down set ablaze in phoenix oma scam. Later we learned the body was of a deceased preborn child estimated to be between 20 and 24 weeks. As many people know, a child of this age born prematurely would have had a chance of survival. Yet, in january of 2023 their Current Governor threat in the legislation that she would support homeless pregnant women like the homeless pregnant women services. Since 2018 the states budget included dollars for the services that supports nonprofits. If you arent familiar with maggies place, they support pregnant homeless women throughout their pregnancy and their childrens first year of life. Maggies place has for maternity homes throughout the valley and is a help or resources in the central phoenix area. Some of these homeless, pregnant women might have a Substance Abuse disorder, fleeing a horrific Domestic Abuse situation or are survivors of Human Trafficking. It cost 26,000 a year to house with one mom. But with inflation costs continuing to rise, it has created challenges for this local nonprofit. It. Like other nonprofits in arizona families, they have a hard time keeping their food pantrys to up dog. It feeds current women and graduates of the program. There is a huge demand from homeless pregnant women who need the resources provided by maggies place. In march of 2023 it was reported that maggies place receives 20 calls a week from women actively seeking resources in housing. Last year state budget that was passed in june did not include any money to help these most vulnerable arizona residents. Homelessness is often a complex issue, not always with one solution. The women who stay at maggie place is strong, independent mothers. They were awarded 100 thousand dollars annually. Due to rising amounts it doubled in price. This was something part of the state budget. Apparently the reason why the Current Governor cut the funding from last years budget was because the grant money could not be granted for abortion Referral Services or distributed to entities that promote, refer or perform abortions. Programs like maggies plays were designed to help homeless pregnant moms maintain pregnancy and have a healthy birth and healthy baby. These women and families have chosen to parent over getting an abortion. They need special care. Our governor used to be a social worker, she should understand how critical it is for these homeless, pregnant moms to get the care, nutrition and housing they need to thrive. What hobbes did last year was leave them homeless pregnant women on the streets instead of ensuring they had access for tools to be confident and successful parent. Their Current Governor chose abortion over supporting those vulnerable homeless pregnant women as a legislator in the previous governor had done for the last legislative sessions since 2018. By way of explain my vote i would like to share the chronicle of three pregnancies. Pregnancy number one, a time not too long ago a young working woman felt like she was coming down with the flu. After two or three days of taking the flu medication she decided maybe she should take a pregnancy test, even though she looked at her calendar and it seemed too early to determine if you might be pregnant. She wrote to the store and bought a pregnancy test, the test was positive, but she figured she would take the second test to verify solidity. She was both elated and nervous. Morning sickness became a real issue, she learned of her pregnancy around week three. Everything made her nauseous. How is she supposed to drive to work and carry on . She ended up carrying plastic garbage bags in her car in the event she felt the urge to vomit. She even had trouble keeping down basic saltine crackers as she sipped water and flavored electrolytes. She scheduled an appointment to see her ob end. Sadly, she ended up in the emergency room for severe dehydration before her first scheduled visit. The emergency requested that she pee into a cup to verify her pregnancy. For nearly an hour they pricked her arms to find a vein so they could administer an iv. They found that finally found a willing vein to cooperate. Both of her arms turned purple. She laid down in the emergency room bed watching the liquids enter the plastic tubing inserted into her arm drip by drip. They added antinausea medicine and she drifted off to sleep. A nurse brought her ginger ale and two packets of saltine crackers. Around the sixth week of her pregnancies she scheduled her ob appointment. Point of order being called. Please speak into your microphone, senator. She checked in with the reception hold on, a point of order has been called. Please rise and make your point of order. Im asking that she stick to it she stick to the repeal of the bill. Shes kind of going off in a number of areas. I would ask that she stick to whats on the board. The request is that you make your comments to remain to the bill. At her first appointment the young woman was given the option of having a transvaginal ultrasound. The doctor told the woman it was too early to detect the babys heartbeat but the doctor would order a trans abdominal ultrasound. The doctor reaffirmed morning sickness with normal and would hopefully subside. Point of order has been called. Senator . Mr. President , this bill is to repeal a ban on abortion, the good senator from district two is not speaking to the bill of repealing an abortion ban. She speaking to many other things. This bill is specifically to repeal the abortion ban. Not all abortions. Can you please explain how your comments are germane to the bill . The doctor offered to write a prescription for antinausea medication since the wristbands were not working. Senator, i need you to explain why your comments are germane to the bill . The comments are germane because not every pregnancy is the same. Ok, proceed. At the same appointment she got her doctor telling her that she needs to eat small bland meals and that would not trigger her nausea. She stocked up on sourdough, applesauce, bananas. She felt decent but was admitted into the emergency room for severe dehydration. She made the routine of being admitted to the er. It was exhausting and not good for her overall morale. A few days later she went to her neck scheduled ob appointment. The same young womans medical staff administer the ultrasound she had learned about. She was told this ultrasound would confirm her pregnancy by detecting a heartbeat and to confirm gestational age and due date. The technician inserted the ultrasound into her. After a few minutes of probing the wand they detected the babys heartbeat. After the appointment she was feeling better, the following weekend she shared news with Close Friends and family, even though it was early in the pregnancy. When she got home from visiting her family the next day, the young woman was feeling weak and exhausted. She was ready around the 11th week mark and getting weak again. The young woman woke up from severe cramping, she could barely move. She found herself trying to walk up the stairs of her twostory home. She did not have the strength to make it up the steps. She made her first her best effort to contact the babys father, but there was a strike at the local Telephone Company so it was difficult to track him down. She mustered up strength and drove to the nearest emergency room. At this point she felt like she needed a frequent visitor card and still had to submit a urinalysis even though they knew she was pregnant. She waited in the cold waiting room to be called. It felt like hours went by. She felt alone and was nauseous. After she was finished in triage, had her vitals taken, they set up a single occupancy room. The oncall emergency room doctor ordered an ultrasound. She finally wheeled into a dark room that had an ultrasound machine. She was asked to sit on the ultrasound table with her abdomen exposed. A nonenglish speaking muslim woman performed her ultrasound. She could not see the facial expression because it was covered by the veil. She tried to make eye contact but she could barely see her eyes. The expectant mother asked questions but the medical professional did not speak english, so neither woman could communicate with one another and there wasnt an interpreter or anyone else in the room. Since this medical professional did not speak english, it made it harder to be in the room together while her abdomen was poked and prodded. Tears came down the mothers face. This young mom had some any questions and answers. She was in pain due to cramping. The medical professional wasnt being gentle when she probed into her abdominal region and typed onto her medical keyboard paired after this young woman was done having her ultrasound she was wheeled into her emergency room. She waited hours for the oncall emergency room doctor to return to get her ultrasound results. The doctor said the baby isnt viable and no longer has a heartbeat. From there the young mother cried and to doubt the doctor and the doctor said you need a dnc. The mother said, what is a d c. That doctor responded quite bluntly its like having an abortion. This young woman felt alone. No longer with the child beating heart and the doctor is telling her to abort. The young womans that i dont want a d c. The young womans partner made it to the hospital only to hear the unfortunate news that they had lost their baby. The doctor responded you need to have this procedure and we need to get you back to having menstrual periods. Your ob office will call you to book an apartment. This young woman was having a panic attack. The emergency room doctor told her she needs to get dressed and checked out of the hospital. She was told to go home and get rest after telling her d c was like having an abortion. While she was getting checked out the hospital staff told her to expect a call from her ob to schedule her surgery. Everyone was so politicals she just lost her baby. Feeling hopeless and depressed, she went home and cried. That night she spoke with her mother who encouraged her to proceed. The next day she received a call from her obis office to schedule the d c. Over the phone she heard the office tell her they would test the fetal tissue for chromosome abnormalities with the hope of giving a result she could one day get pregnant. Several months after her d c, she received multiple medical bills for the emergency room visits and her d c. The medical bills were breathtakingly expensive. She had been in between jobs. Pregnancy number two, a young woman had hopes and dreams in her new life, looking for adventure, she and her husband set eyes on a new chapter with the hope of having a family. After returning from a trip, the couple found out they were expecting. They were both excited about the prospect of starting a family. Two kids would be perfect since i have two hands. As they made plans to welcome a baby into the family, the expectant mother found herself hospital down. She was losing weight, not gaining weight. Her diet encompass canned peaches and lemon flavored luna bars during the first trimester, along with flintstone vitamins. Any otis set odor set her nausea in motion. She was driving home and was tboned by a large dodge ram. Since the driver hit her vehicle and the driver side, her ob ordered an emergency ultrasound to check on the placement of the placenta. The babys gender was revealed that needed to be verified at a later appointment since it was early to be accurate. The couple spent time preparing for their baby, having restore her pregnancy, she prepared the babys nursery. She attended child birthing classes and they encouraged a birth plan. In her birth plan she wanted to bond with the baby by breastfeeding. She did not want supplemental baby formula for her baby. She skipped the last class dedicated to see sections. She read baby books designed for expectant parents and figured she did not need to sit through a class to hear what she already read. Near the end of her pregnancy the couple switched hospitals in obs because they were not comfortable with the large hospitals, which their previous doctor was affiliated. They thought they looked more like baby factories than birth centers. Her due date was approaching and she was sent to the hospital. The medical team determine breaking her water would speed up your labor since she was dilated. She labored for many hours without an epidural. Her husband applied pressure to ease contractions, but her husband was concentrating on eating ben jerrys ice cream as her contraction became more powerful. He reassured her that they would get through this and the ice cream would help keep his strength. Point of order. We cannot have any outbursts from the gallery, please. One of order has been called. Ok. Senator, can you please summarize your explanation of your vote . Sure. Somewhere in the middle of the night they requested pain meds. After hearing women down the hall screaming there was an ax murderer on the floor a team of medical professionals tried everything. The baby decided to greet the world. 20 hours later she was wheeled into the operating room for an emergency csection. They prepped her first surgery. After they prepped her abdomen. It was cut open to bring life to her baby outside the womb. She could not see what was going on since there was a curtain blocking her. A team of doctors shouted this kid is ready for the third grade. They asked the mother she had gestational diabetes. They whisked her baby away with the dad while she was sent to a recovery room. She finally got to meet her baby, he was everything and more. Number three, who knew a toddler could consume a moms entire world. She planned her day learning and exploring the world. Her life came to a stop when she found out she was pregnant again. A month into her pregnancy she started to bleed. Her ob request you get an ultrasound to check on the baby. She was diagnosed. She was no longer to pick up her toddler or do the normal chores she did. After being in the hospital twice, the emergency room decided the best course of action was a implant an iv into her arm and send her home. She had a nurse stop by her house once a week to check her vitals to make sure she was using the iv properly by cleaning the line and hooking up the iv bag. Out a precaution was ordered to bed rest. People around her said the pregnancy wouldnt be fair to their toddler. One individual said this mom should get an abortion. 23 weeks of bed rest with a toddler in tow, this mom survive. One day she found them putting up plastic. There are only two requests we can hope to give our childrens. When his roots in one his wings. The mom went into labor even though she was scheduled for a csection. The baby was born via scheduled csection. This baby is loved by all in the world is your oyster. Many women dont have textbook pregnancies while many women wish they could have a baby. I know the chronicles of these pregnancies intimately because they are all my own. My family has lived and survived each one of them including my miscarriage. I had morning sickness and was dehydrated making it difficult to do much. From losing a baby through miscarriage and having a doctor with terrific bedside manner tell me quite bluntly a d c was an abortion to ending up with a medical bill around 12,000 to come home with no baby. Through ups and downs in tears and joy, life was created in my two kids were born into this crazy world. I love them so much. My son was 10 pounds 10 ounces. He was far larger than my daughter when he was born then when she was even three months old. He looked around the room without me assisting his head from wobbling. My kids are now young adults ages 19 and 22. As you have heard, none of my pregnancies were easy and none would have been possible without the moral support of my husband. I experienced a few medical emergencies during my pregnancies. Im thankful i was blessed with two children. Some people say i have a milliondollar family because i have one boy and one girl. I believe mastercard would say there are some things money cant buy and everything is priceless. Having a d c because the baby wasnt viable was tough. Would arizonas prerow law have allowed me to have this procedure . One prolife individual who reach out to me even wrote, is there a definition for unless it is necessary to save her life, she asked me. Maybe medical doctors could weigh in, i dont know, over the years i had a chance to meet individuals who survived abortions. Some have permanent scars like missing limbs. Other people were told by their adopted families they were not there birth parents but they were wet made their families complete. Thankfully these beautiful human beings were lovingly adopted into these families, some have siblings and their adopted parents were unable to have a baby of their own and we are blessed to have a family by way of adoption. In 2019i saw a movie when it came out in the movie theaters. Its very rare for me to go to the movies. I cannot imagine working in a place like planned parenthood or feeling like an expecting mom that i have no alternative other than seeking an abortion. I have met individuals who have worked for planned parenthood. These individuals have dedicated their livelihoods to educating the community of the horrors inside it. Planned parenthood is often conflicted with state laws around our country. Planned parenthood will not report suspected sexual abuse or statutory rape to law enforcers. A National Pattern has emerged showing planned parenthoods failures to show sex crimes against underage teens. With a wide open border and rising child sex trafficking cases, we will never know the real numbers. In arizona if you are pregnant 13yearold you can get it abortion planned parenthood without parental consent. But if you want to get a tattoo or piercing you need to be 18 years of age or receive parental consent if you are under 18. But if you want to get an abortion you can get one at age 13 and your parents would never know. Many people know i was not born in arizona, but i have come to appreciate some of its history. There is one thing in the history, we should remove it from our state history book. One of the women inducted into arizona womens hall of fame in 1991 is none other than margaret sanger. Her book titled women in the new ray stated the most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. And Birth Control is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit of preventing the birth of defectives are those who will become defective. Planned parenthood set up shop in black neighborhoods to try to eradicate the entire race. One of my best friends is black and im so thankful hes here. Theres nothing mentioned in this bill that takes away the profits of planned parenthood or asked individuals who abort their babies to have these tiny bodies cremated or buried and not sold to big pharma. In fact, the constituents in district two had the same sentiment. In 1977 there arizona legislator reenacted this territorial legislation. This prerow law signed by then democrat that it would delay the date until october 1, 1978 so then another legislative session could consider the new code and add other changes and amendments. The legislator did that during the session when it enacted chapter 20 one, which means significant additions to the criminal laws in arizona. Dr. Babbitt became governor on march 4, 19 78. He signed chapter 201. Change was made in the abortion law and the governor to not asked for one. The law was put on the books by democratic governor. Im not sure why they did not repeal this law when they had democratic governors without the conversation for another time. When i was recruited in june of 2023, i was asked to come back and serve after having a sixmonth hiatus. As many of you know i was appointed to fill this vacancy after serving in the house for four years. Many people knew when they recruited me back to talk about the issue that i really cared about most. And thats educational freedom. From working with the gdp program of inner cities are my early mornings on saturday spent on the baseball diamond working the new york city public high school. I had a chance to work with low income families working jobs and some stuck on government assistance with little chance of upward mobility. But all these parents and grandparents shared something in common. All these families want their children to have a better education just like i want my kids to have the best up best education. My predecessor elected to the sea in november of 2022 supported abortion limits with the exceptions of rape, incest the life of the mother. Republican priestess precinct men asked me to serve and likes of steve kaiser. In 2023i do not fill out any surveys during the appointment process. On june 26, 2023, 122 Republican Precinct Committee members assembled and voted to add my name to the list of three men sent to the board of supervisors. I was interviewed by the Maricopa County board of supervisors. On july 19 the board of supervisors met and unanimously appointed me to the position. In the afternoon on july 21, my husband administered my oath to uphold the constitution laws of the land. Mark my words, the territories journal law, lawyers will lawyer up, the Territorial Law will never go in effect. Voters will decide they support a 15 week limit that will take effect 90 days after the arizona Abortion Access act abortion on demand up to the moment of birth birth. Arizonas governor has gone on National Television to raise money for planned parenthoods dangerous Abortion Access act, absolutely disgusting. As a pro like myself, we should be pushing for the maximum protection for unborn children that can be sustained over time. Since roe v. Wade fell, it has been a call to action for the prolife community to step up its efforts to provide support for women facing unwanted pregnancies considering their circumstances. In november 20 202i went on a Pregnancy Center and they are a wonderful resource and more pregnant mothers need to learn about. They have the tools to become strong mothers as they bring their babies into the world. Recently someone shared a student b anthony doorhanger online stating, most people favor limits on abortions. They support limits on abortions where an unborn baby can see, hear and feel pain. Planned parenthood, there is on Abortion Pill access act goes way too far. If this initiative passes, it would amend the arizona constitution and cannot be adjusted by us lawmakers here for any future concerns. The current safeguards and protections in place that protect young girls and women seeking abortion from an Abortion Clinic would be removed. If this initiative passes it would need a required medical doctor trained to handle any complications. It prohibits punishments for people who take girls to get an abortion. If a child is six traffic they could take the victim to get an abortion to cover their crime and her parents would never be notified and they could not be prosecuted, ever. Very little legislation written and signed into law is ever perfect. Until we have a better choice in this matter, i side with saving our babies lives. I want to protect state constitution for an unlimited abortions. Cliques proceed. I want to protect our state constitution from unlimited abortions up until the moment of birth with planned parenthood Abortion Access act. I am here to protect more babies. I vote either. Did you want to explain your vote . Did you wish to explain your vote . Ok, go ahead. Ok, yes, thank you, mr. President , i would like to explain my vote. This is a clear statement that the legislator does not want the territorial band to be enforceable and i vote yes. The senator votes yes. Mr. Majority leader do you wish to explain your vote . Yes, mr. President , i rise to explain my vote. Thank you, mr. President and i could just start off with mayday, mayday, mayday. Ladies and gentlemen in the gallery, folks watching online, what you just witnessed was a violation of the process. A complete violation of the process. No committee, no debate in committee. We have to do it here during third read. When everything was bypassed, no committees, no discussions. Yes, it has been highlighted. They call it a Territorial Law. Thats a false narrative. Completely false narrative. It has been spoken about in the house, spoken about here today. In 19 four years after roe was decided, in 1977, a democrat governor, a Democratcontrolled Senate voted for what we should actually call it, the statute realignment bill. Because thats actually what it did. If we couldve had a debate in committee, we couldve actually found out what the reasoning is and may be explanation or justification with somebody who is actually an eyewitness to that in 1977 is actually a current senator now. But we dont have those answers because we didnt have a debate. But unfortunately this false narrative is perpetuated by the progressive propaganda partners purposely perpetrating a false narrative. Its not the Territorial Law, its not the statehood arrow law , its a 1977 law. It was codified, recodified. Numerous opportunities. I will give credit where credit is due. Whats the hurry, right . Because your partners in the media, they even highlighted it, one of our local publications that the democrats have seized on to this to enjoy a political fundraising boost from the 18 624 law. Without seeing it go into effect. Thats verbatim. I wont give credit to the author, his head will get too big. Please. Hang on, ladies and gentlemen, please, in the gallery. We know why you are here. We are different than the folks that, two years ago, tried to bust into the senate and dps was called and they had to fight teargas right after the roe decision. Those prochoice people rioted and broke into the building and vandalized. You are not them. Please maintain order. Where was i . False narrative, right. The democrats, in 1977, had an opportunity to strike and repeal, but they didnt, they recodified it in the democrat governor signed it into law. Im old enough to remember certain things back in the 1960s and 1970s. What happened to the Democratic Party . At one time they were prolife. Until the sts had Something Else to champion after the vietnam war. Infiltrated academia, became obsessed with the environmental movements and so on and so forth and infiltrated the Democratic Party and was no longer prolife. Things have changed. This country is on the verge of collapse i have compassion for the woman who has been raped or incest, i have compassion for that. But i cannot go against my core value of life if a woman is raped, get her to the hospital, get a great kid, lets get some dna on these dirt bags and throw them in prison forever. Unfortunately we have members on the floor that vote against these kind of things. Stiffer penalties for sexual sex crimes. Human trafficking, sex trafficking. Incest. Hey, lets lock these dirt bags up. And, if you do get your partner pregnant, and you dont stand up as a man to take care of that child, i condemn any man that wont do that. I adopted my son from a marriage when he was an adult. Yes, i raised him since he was six years old. Guys have problems with that in man doesnt. But we have party opposites who keep wanting to divide and call us, what is it, toxic masculinity. When you see somebody being assaulted you better pray that some toxic manual escape masculinity man goes over there and saves you. We have men in uniform, thats toxic masculinity. Women, god bless them, that are in uniform, i served in the marines for 20 years. I had women in my charge, i wouldve traded for 10 jobs and some of these guys. But now i got to make a choice. Literally what we are having here is a violation of the process. This law wont even go into effect until 90 days after signing it on. The Supreme Court ruling, even the attorney generals asking for the a delay and of course that attorney general is not going to enforce city laws that she chooses, amazing. Im not a perfect man, i have my flaws. May not even be a righteous man. But if i got to choose between a life of the unborn, unfortunately on the circumstances, men need to step up. Take care business. Take care of your children. Even if you are not going to get married. But the process has been violated. This is the wrong answer for this to be happening this way. For example, there should have been amendments on this, rape, incest. It should have been on their. But, we were all robbed of that opportunity for debate. In reason. Nothing we do here is perfect. Nothing is written in stone. Its written in blackandwhite, its written on paper so we can amend it, we can fix it, we can adjust. But, we throw away good for perfect. Some of you want to laugh at me, go ahead and laugh, i dont give a damn. But i have to look at myself in the morning every morning with a sharp object next to my neck when im shaving and in good conscious i have to follow my heart. Mr. President , i dont know. The majority leader votes no. Senator rogers. Mr. President i rise to explain my vote. We live in arizona, the hardscrabble west. In 1864 i believe our territorial forbearers got it right. Because life is unavailable. Life in 1864 is no different than life in 2024. 160 years later life is precious. And i will hear my colleagues say, but its politically expedient for us to moderate. Its politically pragmatic for us to find middle ground. Its politically astute because we might lose votes, we might lose the legislator, we might lose the president ial election. We might use federal lose federal elections. And i say to you, its more important to do whats right because maybe not in this life, but after this life we wont meet our maker. In whatever fate faith you are, this is what matters. We have been given the gift of life. And we have given and passed on the gift of life. And so, when senator burley and i took the oath when the saturday and i took the oath of office to support and defend the constitution of the United States, thats a lifetime oath to support life. And when someone says to you, well what about this issue . My response is, what about those who have no voice . What about those in the womb who are crying out to be born, to live . They have no voice. We are their voice. If not for us, they have no voice. It is our charge, it is our obligation, it is our moral fiber that we give them voice to be able to be born, to live, to become americans. We are americans, we celebrate life, we celebrate the right to life. We celebrate the right to be born. We celebrate to uphold life and life starts at conception. Who are we to say otherwise . It is an unavailable truth. They got it right in 18 sisi for , we need to continue to get it right in 2024. And with that, i vote nay. Like senator rogers fouts nay. Greg thinks you thank you mr. President , may i explain my vote . Thank you, i did not know we could have 30 minute explanations, but there with me, sir. The epitome of dilution is saying i am prolife yet voting to repeal voting to repeal an abortion van. Ive heard that on the campaign trail, i am prolife, but, i want to save babies, but, im going to go ahead and vote to repeal an abortion band that the best abortion ban in the nation. This abortion is one of the tenants, one of the ground, one of the principles of the Republican Party. And yet, again, we have two republicans voting with the democrats to repeal an abortion ban while saying thats kind of like nazi germany where the nazis said choose, you have something, you vote the death chamber, you jews can work the fields. Its wrong. Thats kind of like, if you remember back when there was a white female democrat standing behind larry elder with the gorilla mask saying larry elder is the face of white supremacy. That just doesnt make sense, it doesnt compute. Its dilution. When we go against the bigger picture, is the word of god, which is right here, media, which you all hate, im sure. The word of god says, only righteousness exalts a nation. The word today is a god that does not change. I got the same as yesterday, today and forever. And my colleague, senator rogers just said, one day we will stand before god. Last week i was here when they did the house thing, i could feel the oppression in the house. Thank you republican three. I could feel the oppression over there when we are actually voting for death. The Democrat Party stands and runs on death. The Republican Party stands and is supposed to run on life. I remember last week when i spoke at a press conference that we had probably 200, 300 people there. Most of you were there, thank you for being here today. I appreciate everyone of you. When i spoke at that press conference i did not know what i was going to say, but i know what i did for that moment, i will have the words that i need to say for that time. And i looked at the crowd and i saw little children on both sides. On my left and on my right, caring pictures, of which i have one here under my desk, but i didnt know the rules. I promised joe that i would not bring it out, and i will not, because it does break the rules to do that. I apologize. But i was at the press conference and i saw these children Holding Signs of aborted babies. Dear god, folks. Look at those pictures, arizona. Look at those pictures, america. If you can look at those pictures and you just think that is just tissue, you really need a check up, you really need some help. And i looked at one of the pictures, and there was an aborted baby with his head crushed on his left side. His eyes were dilated, he was dead. I looked at that picture and i said, young man, i dont know who you are, i know you are in heaven today, but im going to speak for you. And today i speak for him. I get the politics of this nonsense. I get the politics of the donors and the republicans, and all that stuff. Why cant we show the nation that we are unified on prolife . We will have the blessing of god over the state if we do that. We have a law in place. 131105 was brought to me by my friend senator burley. Maybe i shouldnt say this because im sure katie hobbs when it enforces either or attorney general maze because they are very selected and the laws that they choose to enforce. A person commits firstdegree murder if, section one, a person commits firstdegree murder murder if intending or knowing that the persons conduct will cause death, including an unborn child. Section c, an offense under section eight applies to an unborn child in the womb at any stage of development. That is for firstdegree murder. Lets go to seconddegree murder. 1104, a person commits seconddegree murder if there is an intentional death of another person, another person, oh my god, including an unborn child, which tells me an unborn child is a person. And according to senator rogers, our constitution guarantees the life of the individual. But here we are, again, breaking the constitution. Section b, an offense under this section applies to an unborn child in the womb at any stage of development. That must mean conception, which i firmly believe in 100 and will die on this hill, life begins at conception because i know i have to stand before god one day and give an account and hes not going to ask me did i win the next election. Hes not going to asked me did the big donors give you a nice check because you voted the way i wanted they want you to. Lets go to manslaughter. A person commits manslaughter by doing any of the following. Number five says knowingly or recklessly causing the death of an unborn child by any physical injury to the mother, and then section c says, an offense under section a paragraph five applies to an unborn child in the womb, most destructive place to be in america is in the womb. In the womb or at any stage of its development. Thats current law, folks. Right here, look it up. But yet, we are here also to take a current law, which was again signed by a democrat governor, voted on by a democrat thats in the Senate Chamber right now, voted in favor. And now, because of our moral backslide, we are here voting to repeal this. And i also want to say this to it arizonans and to you in the gallery. If you have had an abortion, my heart goes out to you because the lie is, you can have an abortion and move on, and i dont think thats true. Im not a female, think glad im not. There are only two genders, folks, male and female, right. But i do know, i come from a family of 13 brothers and sisters and my mom was the most prolife women ive ever met in my dad had to make a decision when my little brother was being born, the life of the mother or the life of my little brother. He chose a life of my mother and my little brother john is buried in the cemetery in minnesota. He is in heaven today. But i do want to say if you have had an abortion, there is forgiveness at the cross of jesus christ. And never forget that, you can be healed of that. Sin is sin. I said earlier that everything the Democrat Party touches turns to garbage. Its very evident by the Current Administration in our white house, and in other areas of government, but mainly in our white house. In arizona you have attorney general maze picking and choosing which laws she wants to enforce. Give me a break. And her cohort, katie hobbs. Immigration, you see american deaths, you see illegal aliens being given thousands of dollars while we are not being while our veterans are not being taken care of. You see inflation, shrinkflation, whats happening on our universities. Universities were built for missionaries for pastors to train them to teach the gospel. Thats where a lot of these universities were built, just a little History Lesson for the corrupt media. Lets go to abortion. Just a few years ago we were talking about partial birth abortion. We saw the pictures of a baby being pulled out of a womb, knife stabbed in the back of the neck in the brain sucked out, then the dead baby is delivered. You saw the planned parenthood videos and you saw the v human destruction of planned parenthood going after the project, but you saw the little petri dishes of little arms and little heads and little torsos. We just heard last week, mile rodriguez, i believe her name was, i heard her speaking at an event telling me she was at planned parenthood for 18 years putting these little torsos and littles goals, and little arms in garbage bags. I am just very sad that our Republican Party cant come together on this and cant work something out. Were pushing this bill through because we think its going to win the next election when i believe just the opposite. If we unify behind life, we would absolutely win this next election. Lastly, i want to say, yesterday we had we didnt the Democrat Party did. Drag queen in the basement of our house of representatives. Yesterday, we had a drag queen show by the Democrat Party point of order has been called. Senator melendez, whats your point of order . This has nothing to do with abortion. Senator kern make sure youre germane to the bill. The germanness is saying that im prolife and voting to repeal an abortion law. Yesterday, we had the drag show or the Democrat Party had the drag show in the Arizona House of representatives. You see whats going on across the nation. The voters are not dumb. They know whats going on. And the voters i talked to asked us to keep the life as the number one thing. Again, righteousness exalts a nation. We, as republicans gave up on the marriage issue. What does the bible say about marriage . Now were asked to give up on the life issue. And i guarantee you thats the peed feel yeah issue because that was here in the Arizona House of representatives in the basement. Its coming. And the reason its coming is because we have no moral obligation. When god says the shed of the innocent blood brings a curse and sit something that he hates, the shed of innocent blood. This is innocent blood. And the craziest thing ive seen and heard is that im prolife yet im going to vote to repeal the abortion ban. That is insanity to me. America, were definitely in a downside as we all know. The Republican Party is not going to save us. We tried that for four or five decades. The Democrat Party definitely is not going to save us. At least with the Republican Party, you have a little hope. And i think the next president of the United States, d. J. T. , donald j. Trump will absolutely propel this nation back into greatness. But our only hope is jesus chris. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, turn from their wicked ways, then i will heal their land. And until we understand who we will give an account to, until we understand that, were going to keep sliding down that hill to destruction. And once we lose america, which i believe the other party really hates this country because if you want to destroy a country youre going to do everything the Current Administration is doing. And until we get back on our face before god and say lord, help us find our way back, i think when we do that, our country will turn. Until we go down this path and keep going down this path and keep believing the lies and keep believing the dilution, its going to be a hard road up. I am running for congress to the senator that said that, but that was repulsive what she said, by the way. And were going to call for impugning. This is what i believe and, you know, that i believe in jesus christ. I believe in life. I will never waver. I dont care if i win or lose. I know in the end i winch and with that i absolutely vote no. Senator kern votes no. Senator hernandez . Thank you, mr. President , i rise to explain my vote. Proceed. Im not running for congress at polling at 3 so im going to keep my explanation short. I just want to clear something up about the messaging around that this bill was that this law was signed in 1977 by a democratic governor, but the reality is that in 1977 the entire criminal code which is hundred pages long was restructured or renumbered. The bill was 180 sections. The abortion ban was located in one single line and it simply stated that it was renumbered from x to y. We vote on hundred of such technical changes each session. This session has been no different. And to cherry pick one one item from nearly 50 years ago shows just how hard the people that are making this argument are grasping for straws. Theres no defense for the territorial ban. Thats all thats left. That is false narrative that this was signed in 1977 by a democratic governor. Roe was in play in 1977 and the law in arizona was unenforceable. I could add so many more reasons why that narrative is false, but ill leave it at that and with that i vote aye. Senator hernandez votes aye. Senator wazaak. And we need to get senator kern, he has to here we go. Thank you, mr. President , i rise to explain my vote. Proceed. Since the arizona Supreme Court made their curiously timed ruling, i have been clear about my position and have made that even more clear with my vote. I am prolife. I was elected as a prolife candidate and i will continue to vote to protect life. But at this point, i have to wonder why are we etch taking this vote even taking this vote to repeal a law that those in charge of enforcing it have stated that they will ignore it completely . What makes any of us belief that these same lawless people will enforce the restrictions on abortion . What they want is the planned parenthood plan, abortion until birth. That is what those using the term abortion care and respective freedom mean. They mean reproductive freedom mean. They mean nine months and they need to own. That in order to appease them, we are skipping this entire process as a bill that usually takes months to rush an appeal of the law that has been signed bay democratic governor and its still being deliberated in the court season. Its not anyones fault that anyone back then didnt read the bill. In fact, we learned yesterday that our attorney general who refuses to enforce this law is now seeking a stay on the ruling. Perhaps we can just change the rules. In this chamber to let her write the law that she wants to enforce so that she doesnt have to go through all of that trouble. But i can give you a sneak peek of what she wants and sit abortion up until birth. The media who has descended into our state from thousands of miles away is here to promote one cause and one cause only, abortion until birth, nine months. I think they need to be a lot like bill maher and say it like it is he rightly stated those like me who are prolife are not antiwoman. Thats just made up. We do think that abortion like planned parenthood is desperately trying to legalize in this state up until nine months. And it is murder. And those who are on this side of planned parenthood are just ok with that, abortion until nine months. And i appreciate bill hahers honesty. Bill mahers honesty. After listening to the different types of pregnancies that one can have, ive had three. And i have two children. The first one i saw, the beating heart of a little baby on a sonna gram and i chose life. Shes amazing. Shes given me my first grandson. The second one, i lost. It was a miscarriage. God chose when that heartbeat was going stop. And then it took 10 years to have my second live birth. It is not my job as a state senator to determine when a childs heart stops beating. And with that i vote no. [applause] [cheers and applause] senator farnsworth. Senator farnsworth, do you wish to explain your vote . Mr. President , i wish to explain my vote. Proceed. Life begins at conception. And we have the responsibility to protect the most innocent in this world and the most vulnerable in this world. And that is children in the womb. Unborn children have a right to live. Abortion is murder. I remember when the decision of roev. Wade came down. And i remember thinking that it was because of corrupt lawyers and corrupt judges. The ruled wrongfully. And we have had to deal with that all these years. But ive been able to say in my heart that god would judge those people who ruled that way. Now, we have a different situation. We cannot blame this on judges or lawyers. We stand here today to make a choice as has been said. Do we choose life or do we choose death . No matter how this vote goes down today, we all need be concerned about that vote in november. And i stand here to say that if america because its not happening just in arizona but in other states. If america chooses death, then what right do we have to ask god to bless america . If we turn against our founding principles and say that we dont believe in the right for a child to be born. Im going to share two very quick versus from the bible. This is something that ive read many times, and i never really understood it, but maybe i do now. It sounds like a warning. Oh, asyrian, this is in isaiah chapter 10. Oh, ssyrian i will send him against hypocritical nation and against people of my wrath will i give him a charge to take the spoil and to take the prey and to trade them down like mire in the streets. If we choose death in this country, why should we be protected from other countries . There are countries across this world that would love to come in and take the good things that god has blessed us with. One more. Have we become so evil in this country, we cannot blame this on judges and lawyers any more because arizonans, today, we have the responsebility to choose between responsibility to choose between life and death on this floor. In november, the people of arizona will have the right or the responsibility to choose between life or death. And god is watching as has been same and been said. And on judgment day we will stand before the Lord Jesus Christ and we will confess that he is the chris the chris, the last comment in genesis chapter 19. Then the lord reigned rained upon so dom and gomoraah brimstone and fire from heaven. And he overthrew the cities and all the plain and tall inhabitants of the city. With that, mr. President , i vote no. Senator farnsworth votes no. [applause] senator hof fen, how do you vote . Senator mesnard. Mr. President , i rise to explain my vote. Proceed. Mr. President , some of you have watched me down here as i have had the exciting experience the get married to the love of my life and to begin planning a family together. Some of you may remember that my first born was born on signee die. How many of you can say that . I wanted to share some of that experience with you all. My wife and i decided we wanted to expand from two to three. We were excited obviously that we got the news that we were pregnant. Excited still to then go and see. And technology is an amazing thing. Be able to see our first born on a sonogram via ultrasound. And then to hear her heart beating. That was quite an experience. I can want i dont know that i can quite some of you may have experienced this so you may know. I cant quite put it into words. I dont know if you could all hear that. But thats the beating heart of my first born daughter when she was around the end of the first trimester. In that whole experience, i learned a few things. First, as joyous as the occasion was, pregnancy is tough. I didnt have to go through it. I just got to watch. So that was a blessing for me. But pregnancy is difficult. Morning sickness, you name it. Its a challenge. Your body changes. And that having witnessed that firsthand, i can stand up and i can say, pregnancy is joyous, but difficult. I realize that there are some out there who face unplanned pregnancies. And so their feelings on the matter may be different than mine. And yet, the challenge may still be the same. May be facing financial challenges as whelm candidly, as well. Candyly, i dont know if us in the prolife community have done a great job standing up for women in that situation. I dont know that we have. I think were improving. I think we can do better. I wanted to acknowledge that and i want to support policy that is help women, pregnant women. And thats the right way to say it, by the way, pregnant women, in situation where is they have challenges theyre facing. In way that is ways that we can come alongside them. Another thing i learned when listening to that beating heart is in case there was any doubt, that was a living human being. And i had the privilege of being able to see it there in front of me and hear it there in front of me. But that cast all doubt aside in case i was thinking this was just a clump of cells, which im pretty sure thats what we all are actually is a bunch of cells. There was a beating heart there and i realize there are serious moral implications to the idea that we will just stop it. That were going stop the beating heart. When theres a beating heart, i think that matters. It used to be that the other folks on the other side of the isle, their mantra was, abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. It wasnt so long ago that that was the mantra. But as i listen from what i hear from the vast majority of them, they seem to be running away from that. In fact, its almost more aligns closely with republicans today than democrats. And the thing theyre running away from seemingly is the word rare. And i get it. Why that word might make people uncomfortable. They there are moral implications there why would we want something to be rare unless there was some moral issue at stake which was the case when i witnessed each of the pregnancies. We have four. We lost one. Three kids today that are a blessing. I realize that talking about the moral implications of abortion makes people uncomfortable or even angry. After all, if you can convince yourself that were not talking about a living human being or we can categorize them in some other way, devalue them in some other ways to remove the moral challenge this poses to those who want abortion on demand up until birth with no restrictions, it makes it a heck of a lot easier, doesnt it . When we can close our eyes to the little human being pictured on the sonogram and we can plug our areas to the innocent beating heart of an innocent person, it does become easier. What really troubles me in the midst of all of, this i hear the other side saying this is just about a womans choice or maybe a persons choice now. But a womans choice. And that comes across to me as disingenuous when then i see by their actions efforts to deliberately attack every other choice possible except for abortion. For instance, ive seen this onslaught against pregnancy resource centers. Little mom and pop shops most of them i realize theyre not the size of planned parenthood and other abortion providers. So maybe that makes them less appealing to some and easier targets. All theyre doing is volunteering their time and their resources to help women in need. And it is true that they will encourage them to choose life. Ive seen them attacked for that for encouraging home to choose life. It comes across as disingenuous to me really wants there to be a choice to be honest when i see situations like that. But whats even more troubling to me is the inability or maybe the unwillingness of those who do advocate radical abortion policies to talk about the other living being involved. I dont know that my side has done a great job talking about the challenges that pregnant women face especially if its unplanned or theyre fashion financial challenges. I find it really disturbing that the other side bends over backwards to try to avoid any acknowledgement of a living being here. Ive never once never once heard it from my friends on the other side of the isle in this chamber. Not a single time. At least acknowledge it. You can say it has less value. I will disagree with you. You can say that and rationale lies why we should allow it all the way up until moment of birth. But they cant even ive heard people say im not going to support this bill because it might be helping pregnant women or it might be dealing with the fact with the fact that you murder a pregnant woman there are two lives there they will say i dont want to do neigh advances the idea that the that the that the fetus is a person. That is unbelievably disturbing to me. At least confront the moral issue here rather than running away from it. And then, of course, they well, when you do that, by the way, history is replete with examples. Before you do morally dubious things to people. What is it you do . You label them. You redefine them, you remove their humanity and their value so then it is more justifiable to do the thing. We can see it in this country where we define people as property. We can see it overseas. Youre not the right race. Were going to exterminate you or the right religion. So i get really troubled when were trying to remove the humanity of the unborn in the womb because that would seem to set us up to do some morally questionable things. And then i hear it glossed over as abortion is healthcare. It is the only healthcare im aware of that involves ending a human life except for maybe physicianassisted suicide and while i apose that, at least that person had a choice whereas those in the womb do not. Now, i can look at this law on the books, one ive never voted for, and i dont know that i would have voted for it in this way. I think it needs improvement. I mean, it lax definitions. People have suggested that egg going to pregnancies should be implicated. For me it is not the same situations. Or or exceptions. I would support a repeal and replace if that were an option. Its not. The choice for me is whether to repeal it totally leaving almost nothing in flames i realize that the 15week bill that those on the other side also voted against but that means that 95 of abortions are still ok. Were saving 5 of the unborn. While i think that is something, it it leaves much to be desired. So im facing a binary choice here. But because i believe that that when theres a second person in the equation, that person should be given greater determination because i believe that not only does life begin at conception but because that life is precious. I believe that if i vote yes, these will be fewer. These heartbeatings will be fewer. I vote no. Senator mesnac votes no. Senator kavanaugh . Thank you, may i explain my vote . Yes, sir. Im explaining my vote to my constituents. Not that they would be surprised because ive always campaigned as being prolife. Those who have paid attention know that im prolife. And im not prolife as some may think because i want to oppress women and take away their rights. Interestingly im not prolife because im a Roman Catholic although its convenient to have that position align with your church. Im prolife because in my teenage years, i saw pictures of developing fetuses. And its quite obvious that theyre little people. Theres no way you can change that view if you look especially as the months go by. So to me, theyre human beings. And to me abortion is killing them. So judge me on my belief that they are a living human beings. But if you want to misjudge me, please misjudge me and call me somebody who wants to oppress women because i much rather be thought of as a male cove nest than a baby killer because the latter is worse. With that i vote no. Senator kavanaugh votes no. Senator birch. Mr. President , with my shorted microphone i once again rise to explain my vote. Proceed. We heard a lot of disinformation in this room today. I can rephrase. First, i want to explain that the graphic discorruptions of abortion do not bear any resemblance to the vast majority of abortions per formed in this country. Members in the gallery members of the gallery you cannot burst out. Senator burch members in the gallery. Hold on senator burch. I understand your passion. We have when members are speaking on the floor, there is no outbursts in the gallery, please. Thank you. Senator burch. Certainly nothing at all like the procedures that i had. Were not talk about what were voting on here today. This is about the civil war era ban that criminalizes doctors and makes virtually all abortion legal. The ban that the people of arizona overwhelmingly dont want, were here to repeal a bad law. I dont want us honoring laws about women written during a time when women were forbidden from voting because their voices were considered inferior to men. But since we want to talk about the ballot initiative, the lice being told about the language of that bill need be addressed. The bill does not allow for abortion on demand through the ninth month of pregnancy. Thats categorically false. Point of order has been called. Thank you, mr. President , the i dont know what district nine. The bill deals with the repeal of the abortion ban. Shes actually getting into the weeds on the ballot abortion mean i would like to be held to the same standard who has explained their vote. If shes speaking to abortion, it is germane to the bill. Please stick to the topic of abortion. Thank you. Then let me move on. Legislation that would be appropriate. Legislation that i think the public would like to support would have a viability clause and any Citizens Initiative that was reflective from what the citizens have been asking for would have language point of order has been called. Same point of order. Shes talking about perspective that has not been introduced and not on the board to be voted on today. Senator burch . What im saying is actually why im voting the way im voting. This is the reason why im voting this way. Im elected to stand here and explain my vote. This is why im voting the way that im voting. It is germane to the bill. Were talk about abortion. Its been a point of order and im continuing to talk about abortion which has been ruled jeannine this bill. The chair rules that we have had members speak about abortion on both sides. As long as she per tynes abortion, she is germane. Proceed. We also have to stop allowing people to suggest that there are abortion providers in this state or country who provide elective abortion on demand for fullterm pregnancy. This is false. Facts are facts. The majority of people in this state think that the decision of abortion belongs to providers. I respect their religion. Im not afraid of the abortion that is i had. I do not fear for my soul. They were the right decisions for me. I dont have to follow your religion in this country. And this is not a belief that is consensus even among religious individuals a very large portion of people who believe in abortion identify as christian or catholic. The trend towards legislating religious believes is dangerous and it should make everybody nervous regardless of their faith. As to the concerns of those who felt that we have not followed process or proceedings here today, we have what should be a very balanced body. We are 16 republicans and 14 democrats. We all introduce bills we all care about represent our constituents and making sure that voice heard in this body. Of the nails made it to the governors desk, three came from senate democrats. Thats not a Representative Democracy, thats irresponsibility representation and thats what the leadership has chosen if we dont want to be a Representative Democracy and if we only want to allow some voices in the room point of order senator burch so im speaking specifically to this bill talking about procedure. The reason why were right here right now this bill has been up many times if we wanted to debate, bring it to the committee. You have had the opportunity to bring our bills to committee over and over and over again. And if you refuse to hear our bills when they are popular with the public and when its what the people of arizona want, then we are going use the tools and Resources Available us to to make sure that our constituents are being heard. Sit their right. We cannot ignore the majority of arizonans and only listen to voice that is lean heavy into Party Politics because everyone else is going to be silenced in the process here. Point of order. And i senator burch yes. Senator burch votes yes. Senator champ. I rise to explain my vote. Proceed. The members in this room, my constituents in l. D. 29 and the citizens of arizona that have gotten to know senator jenet champ, nurse manager elected in 2022 is 100 prolife. I wasnt going speak today, but i cannot continue to hear misinformation be said and to not clarify and that is there is a very large difference between an abortion and a d. N. C. Which is aa dilation. Im here to tell you as a woman who would never been in the operating room to perform an abortion, i have unfortunately, witnessed the sadness of a dilation of a kiratage and ive been the nurse to hold the hand of the patient to go through this procedure. But a dilation in kiratage of products in consumption is not the same thing as a preborn living child. I can want stand to hear that misinformation continued. It is not the same. I also would like to clarify that this law when it was put into effect was to protect women because back in the day women were sex trafficked. And when they got pregnant, they couldnt work. They couldnt earn money for the people that held their papers. So therefore, i do not want to hear any more misinformation about where this actually came from. And finally, if abortions at six, seven eight, nine months of gestation are not happening, then i call on all of the members to vote to ban it in the state of arizona. I will not attack anyone for their beliefs. But i will not stand for misinformation especially when it is medically aimed to distort. And with that i vote no. Senator champ votes no. Senator hoffman . Thank you, mr. President , i rise to explain my vote. Proceed. I have been tremendously blessed with a big family. I have a loving wife who many of you have met here in the gallery. And i have five incredible children. 14 to 5. Not all of those children were planned. But when we had the opportunity when god gave us that inside of my wifes womb, we chose to protect life. We chose dash doesnt mean it was easy. There were financial hardships. We didnt have a house that was big enough. There are always considerations and always factor that is go into those decisions. But our job as humans our jobs as people is to defend and protect the most vulnerable, to defend and protect those who cant speak for themselves. You know, we have seen virtue signaling at its finest so far in this chamber. Weve seen a total abandonment of the process as was mentioned by a couple of other colleagues on my right. Had we nod abandoned the process like the amendment that was brought earlier, we could have insured that there would have been mandatory reporting to Law Enforcement in situations of rape and incest, a tragic and heartbreak and horrific experience that i wish on no one. We could have done that. But unfortunately, my crowings across the oil and two on my own side abandoned the process. We could have amended the bill to eliminate the disgusting practice of the d. N. E. Abortions or the d. N. C. Abortions except for those cases of miscarriages where a fetal heartbeat is no longer felt or a fetal heartbeat no longer exists. But we didnt we didnt do that because we abandoned the process. And im disgusted at the fact that the political propaganda in this room including from all of you in the media continues to call in the Territorial Law when you know full well that that is not the case. Its not even the same statutory number. But with the democrat with the democratic majority in the Arizona Senate and a democrat governor on the ninth floor probably wasnt the ninth floor then, but they recodified this after extensive multiyears long public input. They recodified this law. And they gave it a new number. 133603. It is misinformation to say that this is the Territorial Law because this is the post roe law. This is the law that four years after roe was decide even democrats in this state recognize that life is invaluable to us as a society, that life is worthy of protection. Thats not the case any more today. And in fact, it was insinuated by senator hernandez that the democrats in 1977 apparently werent smart enough to read the law. That they didnt know how to read the law. Ill tell you thats an insult. Its an insult to the democrats and the republicans that served in these legislative chambers all those years ago. Its an insult just like when they say that minorities cant access an identification to vote. Its misinformation and its propaganda. And that is what this debate has devolve into unfortunately from my colleagues across the isle. And to my colleagues on this side of the isle. You know, the senator from district two, and im paraphrasing here claim that countless women and teens are victims of sexual assault. Had we voted to amend the measure right here, we would have required mandatory reporting. We would have protected those people from the disgusting perpetrators of those crimes. But we werent able to do that. And you know, with the very, very long 21minute vote explanation by that same senator from district two, she has confused the prolife community. Now, i wont assume her motives. Maybe that was unintentional, but she has confused the prolife community. Make no mistake to everybody watching this and hearing my voice right now and everyone who will hear it, she voted for abortion. She voted for 95 of all abortions continuing to exist. And what i find truly incredible is that even the leftist bill maher sees the cognitive dissonance in that lidge. Bill maher recently said and i quote i dont understand the 15week thing. I can respect the absolutist position. I really can. I scold the left when they say, oh, you know what, they just hate women. Those are people who are prochoice. They dont hate women, they just made that up. They sympathy its murder. And it kind of is. Im just ok with that. I am. There are eight billion people in the world. Im sorry, we wont miss you. Thats my position on that. Even bill maher knows that its murder. And any leftist who is honest with themselves on this topic like bill maher knows its murder, plain and simple. Thats what this is. You know, our Founding Fathers in the declaration of independence, they wrote these words, we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalien able right that is among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They are life life, i say again. And it wasnt as if the declaration of flips was the only time that they made that argument. In the 14th amount in the equal protection clause and im reading just the excerpt that applies here it says nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Now, weve already heard heard from my colleague in district 27 that our criminal code codifies these preborn children as persons. So what we are doing here today is in plain letter violation of the u. S. Constitution, the bill of rights and the 14th amendment. But apparently nobody cares about those archaickic laws any more. Thats what weve heard today is that theyre archaic. I dont take the constitution as being archaic. The equal protection clause in the bill of rights that sure as hell doesnt seem archaic to me. It seems like it was divinely inspired. It seems like it was designed for a day just like this. So what are we actually doing here today . For all the knuckle heads in the media. Lets go ahead and put it on record, ok . What are we doing today . Now, according to the gut Maker Institute no friend of the prolife community, ok, the gut maker is a pro Abortion Research center. At 15 weeks which is what when this bill when this bill passes at 15 weeks 95 of abortions. In arizona that equals 12,350 lives snuffed out. 8 will be per formed on teenagers. Thats about 1,000. 57 will be young women in their 20s about 6500. 31 will be women in their 30s at 3600. Now, 50 of those abortions will be per formed on hispanic minorities. 8 on black minorities. 58 , please let that sink in. These are not my numbers. These are the pro abortion crowd numbers. 5 . 58 . 7, 700 lives if that bill passes. 44 of the abortions allowed by this bill according to gutmaker again, 44 of those abortions will be surgical abortions. Now, you know, we talk about these and again the left propagandizes and conflates medical terminology with abortion terminology. But lets actually look at what one of these surgical abortions looks like. If you could see her baby, which is quite easy, she would be as long as your hand plus the half from the top of her head to the bomb of her rump to the bomb of her legs. Your patient has been feeling her baby but now shes asleep on an operating table and you are there to help her with her problem pregnancy. The first task is to remove the area that had been placed in the area to die late it sufficiently to allow the procedure you are about to perform. With that mid direct your attention to the table on your right. The first table you reach for a 14 french suction catheter. It is clear plastic and about nine inches long. Its three quarters of an inch in diameter. Picture yourself introducing it through the cervix and instructing the circulating nurse to turn on the suction machine which is connected to the catheter. What you will see a is pale yellow fluid coming into the catheter on the suction machine. This is the amniotci fluid protecting the baby to protect her. Now, look for your clamp. This instrument is about 13 inches long and made at stainless steam at the business end are jaws about three quarters an an inch wide with rows of sharp rigid teeth. This instrument is for grasping and crushing tissue show when it gets ahold of something senator mendez, please rise to state your point of order. Stop talking about anything and is now reading off a man through will be passed out to anybody and does not further any argument. Youre out of order. He knows hes wasting time. All right. Thank you for your ok. The the ruling of the chair is that he is germane and he is not dilatory in the senate. We have the pleasure of speak as long as we want. Thank you. , mr. President. Proceed this tissue is grasping tissue show when it gets ahold of something it does not let go. The baby can be any any orientation. Picture yourself reaching in with the sulfur clamp and grasping anything you can. The uterus is thin and soft. So be careful not to perforate or puncture the walls. Squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard, really hard. You feel something let go and out pop as fully formed leg about six inches long. Reach in again and grasp whatever you can. Set the jaw and pull really hard once again and out pops an arm about the same length. Reap in again and again with that clamp and tear timeout spine, the intense tins the heart and the lungs. The toughest part of a d. N. E. Abortion is extracting the babys head. The head of a baby at that size senator mendez senator mendez, whats your motion . Whats your point of order . I appeal your ruling. I havent head a ruling. Your previous ruling. Whats your point of order . That you know hes wasting time. Ask him to get to the point. Youre out of order, sir. You have to have a point of order. Proceed, senator hoffman. Thank you. The head is now free floating inside the uterine cavity. You can be pretty sure you have hold of it if the silver clamp is spread about as far as your fingers are allowed. You know you have it when you crush down on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix. This is the babys brain. You can extract the skull pieces. Sometimes the face will stare back at you. Congratulations you have just successfully perform a second trimester d. N. E. Abortion. You have just confirmed her right to choose. That was testimony given to the United States congress by dr. Levetino a former prochoice abortionist who realized that what he was doing was not healthcare. It was murder. And it is heartbreaking. As senator kern said, the Democrat Party policies today have sadly become the policies of death and destruction. As senator mesnard said, safe, legal, and rare used to be the mantra of the democrats. But as you can see on the board, it is no longer the case. In fact, we dont have to look much farther than just half bayh across the country in new york where just a few years ago approximately 2016, i think it was, when they erupted in raucous at allowing partial birth abortion. So the myth that they dont happen, they cheered loudly when they authorize it. That is a procedure even worse than the procedure i just described, even more gut wrenching and heartbreaking. Because that is a fully formed baby. That when it comes out to womb, they stab it in the bomb of the final bottom of the spinal cord. They stab it right at the base of the skull to try to sever brain function thats a completely viable baby. Friends, these policies are literally literally, and i dont mean that in the new dictionary form of figuratively. I mean, they are literally destroying america. They are destroying American Culture and American Society and americas viability as a nation. You probably or maybe you didnt you may be saw that recent think u. S. Fertility rate fell to only 1. 6 children per woman in 2023 that is the lowest its been in American History that is fewer children than in 1980. In 1980, america had 100 million fewer people in it. And yet there were fewer children in 2023 than in 1980. We can go through through any number of reasons for why this is. One is the culture marxism that has permeated American Government and permeated the political class, the post modernism where weve completely abandoned operative truth and reality. We no longer believe as a society, i do but as a society, we no longer believe that there is truth. That there is the truth. Society tries to tell us, whats your truth . Thats not truth. Thats opinion. The truth on this issue here today on this issue up on the board. The truth. The only truth is that this is allowing 12,350 murders to occur in arizona every single year. The truth is that katie hobbs and chris mays refuse to enforce the law that is on the books that the Supreme Court ruling is statutoryly valid because they dont like it. The truth is that we will have over 12,000 people die because of whats happening here. And thats not hyperbole. Thats the numbers from the pro abortion community and i guess like bill maher said, its murder. Theyre just ok with that. So i vote no. Senator hoffman votes no. [applause] senator gowan. Thank you, mr. President , rise to explain my vote proceed. Thank you, mr. President , members. Its been a pretty bad day in my mind. Im very saddened. Ive been prolife ever since i remember. Today makes me feel like when 9 11 hit. I have that feeling. I dont know if many of the other side who is voting yes on this dont understand that feeling in this arena for this. Thats the way i believe a lot of us are feeling for this issue when you bring up Territorial Law, and you say Territorial Law like an older antiquated law, one of my colleagues spoke on that, i guess the constitution most likely, because it was created before the Territorial Law, but we still believe in the constitution. We still believe that murder should be punished, theft should be punished, still follow laws even from england, from english law, are those not antiquated . The first amendment, i am so thankful, i have the right to speak my mind as i wish, choose as an american citizen. So grateful that within that we can assemble, im so grateful that i have the freedom to believe in my god and not be punished. My christian faith, i am a christian, probably. Thank you, lord jesus. My faith directs me in the manner that i lead my life, and in this situation here, even as we talk about our faith and where it leads us, where it takes us, i will speak to you scientifically. When this berm hits the egg, that is a life, and we know this scientifically. From the preborn in the womb to birth, to you and me right now, is that not life . These babies are innocent, and it is said to me that we are here today voting to take away the ability for them to live. I wear these proudly, i have feet on my lapel. That is a 10 week old babys feet in the womb. We are preparing to go to 15, allowing 15 and before. This is 10 weeks. This baby could be aborted after this. Thats why im sad today. A look at this and i think about my two sons, when my wife was pregnant, in the womb, fits month, the doctors were saying, well, we dont know if its going to make it, you may want to think about aborting. And that did not even come to our manned to our mind, and we said no. Same thing with my second child, my wifes womb was very thin and said she might not be able to carry him to term. You might think about that. And of course we said no. Now, my two sons, 28yearold david junior, mining and engineering degree, just took his lsat, he will be going into law. It wasnt viable at five months, yet here we are. My other son graduated high school early. Now he is in college, he is going into his senior year. That is life. That is my familys life. I feel for many others who are about to lose their lives, and i will pray that this nation, that our lord will turn our nation to the right again. Its tough, sad situation we are in. With that, mr. President , i vote no. Mr. President , i rise to explain my boat. Theres a lot of points made by my colleagues here with respect to this bill that is before us, and i will fall back to what the senator brought up and she keyed in on a really important aspect, our responsibility in this body is to really understand the intent of the law and where it came from. Statements have been made that the territorial times were archaic. I would contend if that is their position and they consider family archaic and a kind of fits the mantra of what is going on today with the sex trafficking, the Human Trafficking, the child abuse and the other things that are taking place today. Given the size of the population of our country, the size of the populations of the world, our open borders, all these are impacting the situation that is just so ungodly. Also add to the fact that the medical industry seems to have disavowed their hippocratic oath to save and protect lives and to hear them speak as they do is if this is just a business, a Financial Game of some kind, it is most unfortunate that we are at a place like this. So all i will say is at this point, i will continue to fight for childrens lives, born, unborn, i will continue to fight against the sex trafficking and the Human Trafficking that is taking place, looking at the votes on this board, unfortunately we are attacking the family as well. So i will probably vote no and stand my ground for god, country, and children. Quick senator carol votes no. Thank you, mr. President. I rise to reclaim my boat. Listening to my colleagues, i really dont have a lot to add to your eloquent words, your hearts that you have shared, for those of you supporting life today. And im just sitting here reminded how far we have come from teaching how precious the sanctity of human life is, and weve got to give back to that. We got to teach it to our children and our grandchildren and beyond. As has been mentioned, my vote reflects being a voice for the voiceless. And i agree with those who have said the senator from district 19, i just am grieving i am so sad today with him, and i vote no. Mr. President , id like to explain my boat. The choice we have today i think was correctly described by the senator, stay with the 18641967, whatever or the 15 week. Im voting no because i think 15 weeks is way too long. I think the law on the books presently leaves out some changes that would such as rape and incest, severe fetal defects that would not allow the child to survive at birth. Our daughter is a labor and delivery nurse and has practice for 18 years, 13 in arizona, five in utah. She usually works three or four days a week and at the end of every ship she calls either her mother or me or both to tell us how her day went, and that means that i have heard hundreds of stories, many of them joyous, and many of them so heartwrenching it is beyond my comprehension how she does what she does. And there are situations where parents have chosen to terminate a pregnancy for reasons that are not contained in our present law , and its difficult to craft any law that takes contemporary exception, but i cant go from where we are at right now to 15 weeks. Because long before that, i gave a lot of emphasis on when the heart starts beating and when the brain of that child is emitting waves. That is long before 15 weeks. So that is a critical point to me. We can debate as prolifers when life begins. God knows that, but to me it is long before 15 weeks. But i want to say that i respect the persons behind every one of the names on this board, whether youre green or red, i am sure you are voting your conscience and i will stand for that to the end. But if i have to choose between where air zona is at today are going to the 15 weeks, i choose where it is at right now and i vote no