Teen girl denied medication refill under AZ’s new abortion lawTUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - A 14-year-old Tucson girl was denied a refill of a life-saving prescription drug she had been taking for years just two days after Arizona’s new abortion law had taken effect.14 year old Emma Thompson has debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis which has kept her in and out of the hospital for most of her life.I didn’t know what to do.”The young girl’s physician, Dr. Deborah Jane Power said “this was the first pediatric patient that had been denied her medication.”She admits she was angry which spilled over into a Twitter post where she said “welcome to Arizona, she was denied because she’s female” and she said she was “livid.”The treatment for Emma has been years in the making.“I’m like if they deny this then we’ll have to find a different medication and we don’t know if it’s going to work.”Dr. Power says a refusal has happened to some older patients but never someone so young and so quickly after the territorial abortion law written in 1864 had taken effect.“And then the pharmacist would be responsible.”Walgreens, where the prescription was denied sent us this statement:Bud, our focus is meeting the needs of our patients and making sure they have access to the medications they need, in compliance with applicable pharmacy laws and regulations."