PHX Reporter

Larissa Rodgers, a Phoenix resident and member of the St. Thomas the Apostle parish, said American taxpayer money is being used to "subsidize abortion facilities" despite the opposition to the extreme lack of abortion regulations. 

"2,800 innocent children are slaughtered in the womb every day in the US," Rodgers said. "My taxpayer dollars are being used to subsidize abortion facilities to the tune of $2 billion in 2023. We are exporting abortion to foreign countries with our tax dollars."

"Meanwhile, we ignore common sense—the baby is a unique individual from the moment of conception—while the abortion industry is permitted to spread deception and lies," she said. "The Arizona abortion amendment is so extreme; it allows the killing of babies at any point in the pregnancy (read the amendment!) and makes abortion a constitutional right which doesn’t allow for regulation or restrictions."

“Donald Trump is the most pro-life politician in my life,” Tom McClusky, conservative speaker and Principal at Greenlight Strategies, said at the National Conservatism’s Beyond Dobbs panel. “When he comes back into office, he can change the federal laws that use taxpayer dollars to fund abortion, and he can change family policy to promote the bearing and raising of children.”

An Arizona court ruling in April of this year brought back a state law from 1864 which banned all abortions except for when the life of the mother was endangered. Arizona House legislators passed House Bill 2677 on May 2 to repeal the ban, with Governor Katie Hobbs signing the bill into law. The bill goes into effect on September 14, 2024, with a ban on enforcing the 1864 law in effect until September 27, 2024.

“The Democrats are the radicals on this because they're willing to have abortions in the seventh, eighth, ninth month,” former President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post. “We’re talking about the execution of a baby. And you can say what you want, but that's extreme and that's radical.”