It may come as a surprise to many Arizonans that conservative Republicans played a role in creating one of the state’s first birth control clinics, which later merged with Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of reproductive health care and abortions in the U.S. Mother’s Health Clinic, the first birth control clinic in Phoenix, was opened in 1937 thanks to the work of a group of activist women that included Peggy Goldwater. Over time, a network of clinics developed and became Planned Parenthood of Arizona, providing contraception and abortion services to all women after doing so became legal in 1973…

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