Year: 2013

Nine CAP-Supported Bills Signed this Session

The legislative session has just ended, and Center for Arizona Policy saw nine CAP-supported bills signed into law! That brings the total for CAP since its founding in 1995 to 123 CAP-supported bills becoming law! Here’s a quick rundown of the bills from this session...

Medicaid Expansion and Abortion Fact Sheet

In the current debate over whether Arizona should expand Medicaid services pursuant to the federal Affordable Care Act, questions have arisen regarding the funding of abortion providers. To clarify the misinformation surrounding this issue, Center for Arizona Policy...

Guest Post: Why Kermit Gosnell Matters

By Thomas Grier Kermit Gosnell might be the "worst serial killer in history." The exact number of innocents slaughtered likely will never fully be known, and the atrocities likely never fully revealed. It is far and away, for me and my wife, one of the most horrifying...

Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous…

The Arizona House and Senate unanimously passed resolutions yesterday supporting the values and policies of the Boy Scouts of America. Former Boy Scouts Rep. David Gowan and Sen. Al Melvin read this resolution before it was unanimously passed: Whereas, scouting is the...

CAP’s Letter to the Bisbee City Council

Bisbee City Attorney The City of Bisbee 118 Arizona St. Bisbee, AZ 85603 R.E.: Bisbee does not have authority under Arizona law to authorize civil unions Dear Bisbee City Attorney: I write as a representative of Center for Arizona Policy[1] to express my legal opinion...

Why it’s called the Bathroom Bill

Under the guise of "prohibiting discrimination" against people on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression, The Phoenix City Council is considering an ordinance riddled with devastating legal and ethical consequences. The Bathroom Bill...

How do you respond?

It’s impossible to properly commemorate the loss of 50 million lives to abortion. There is simply no way to capture the grief, confusion, pain, and shock at the reality of so many lost lives, and so many people scarred from the procedure. This week was filled with...

Pro-life Proclamations

In recognition of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case which legalized abortion in America, the Arizona House and Senate, along with Governor Brewer issued proclamations denouncing the unconstitutional decision. View the proclamations here:...

How they’ve been losing ever since

“Abortion-rights advocates won an epic victory in Roe v Wade. They’ve been losing ever since.” The cover of the recent Time Magazine summarized what we’ve seen right here in Arizona over the last four decades. But the Time’s article went on to lament how abortion...

These Tragedies Must End

An entire generation of Americans has never known an America without legalized abortion for any reason, at any stage of pregnancy or any age of the mother. Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, more than 50 million lives have been aborted during...