US | Arizona Arizona Bans Funding to Planned Parenthood Jan Brewer cuts off abortion providers from state money By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted May 5, 2012 5:26 AM CDT Copied Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks to reporters in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Gov. Jan Brewer yesterday signed into law a bill to cut off Planned Parenthood's access to taxpayer money funneled through the state for non-abortion services. Arizona already bars use of public money for abortions except to save the life of the mother. But anti-abortion legislators and other supporters of the bill say the broader prohibition is needed to ensure no public money indirectly supports abortion services. Planned Parenthood Arizona claims a funding ban would interrupt its preventive health care and family planning services for nearly 20,000 women served by the organization's clinics. The organization says it will consider a legal challenge. (A similar law in Texas is in the same boat.) The measure targeting funding for Planned Parenthood for non-abortion services was one of several approved by Arizona's Republican-led Legislature related to contentious reproductive health care issues this session. Read These Next 'Bad batch' of drugs causes mass OD in Baltimore. Surgical staff squares off with ICE agents. He fired the crucial 'ninth shot' against Trump gunman. It's the 2nd fatality this year inside a hyperbaric chamber. Report an error