Arizona governor urges the state to stop collecting abortion data, citing patient privacy

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, D, is urging state lawmakers to repeal a law that compels annual abortion reports, citing patient privacy. Abortion advocates say that collecting the data is not only burdensome for providers but also that the collected data could be misused. Likewise, they worry about what the collection of abortion data could mean during Donald Trump’s presidency. “It’s really worth thinking carefully about the risk and the benefit of collecting data in this new environment,” said Isaac Maddow-Zimet, a researcher at the Guttmacher Institute.