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Arizona Governor Signs More Pro-Family Legislation

  • Religion Today Religious persecution, missions, Christianity around the world
  • Published Apr 27, 2012

April 29, 2012

Family advocates had a lot to celebrate on April 18, when Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law three pieces of legislation protecting life, religious freedom and taxpayer funding of arts programs, WORLD News Service reports. Under an amendment attached to HB 2265, no state dollars will go toward funding obscene art. HB 2627 decrees that abortion providers cannot qualify for a tax credit given to the working poor, and SB 1359 bans anyone in the state from filing a "wrongful cause of life" lawsuit against doctors who fail to diagnose birth defects in unborn children that might lead parents to have abortions. Brewer also signed a bill allowing schools to offer an elective course on the Bible as literature.