PHOENIX - Arizona won't require schools and colleges that discuss contraception and sexually transmitted diseases to also tell the students about adoption.
Gov. Katie Hobbs late Tuesday vetoed HB 2040 which would have linked providing mandatory information about adoption not only when talking with students about those issues but when providing contraceptives as well as testing students for sexually transmitted infections, something that is done at the college and university level.
The proposal came from Rep. Rachel Keshel who called it a reaction of sorts to Proposition 139, which was promoted as providing more choices for women. That measure, approved by voters in 2024, provides a constitutional right of women to terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability, generally considered between 22 and 24 weeks.
