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Post by Logan on Feb 4, 2016 4:35:58 GMT -6
State workers would not be able to donate to abortion providers through the state's payroll salary deduction program under a bill introduced by Senate President Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, even though the practice has effectively ended. Senate Bill 1485 targets Planned Parenthood of Arizona, one of the state's largest abortion providers, by restricting state employees from making the donations to "a charitable organization that performs a non-federally qualified abortion or maintains or operates a facility where a non-federally qualified abortion is performed for the provision of family planning services." Non-federally qualified abortions are ones that are not covered under federal Medicaid law. Federal law only covers abortions in the case of danger to the life of the mother, rape or incest. The organization was cut off from the state's charitable-giving program late last year following a decision by the State Employee Charitable Campaign, chaired by Gov. Doug Ducey. At the time, Ducey's office explained the decision by saying Planned Parenthood too was mired in controversy. Read more: www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2016/02/03/arizona-bill-targets-state-workers-donations-abortion-clinics/79705612/
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