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Family Council Calls on Congress to Block Abortion Funding

Jun 12, 2017Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

Last week we joined more than 80 pro-life organizations in signing a letter urging Congress to keep funding for abortion providers out of the American Health Care Act, the new healthcare law up for consideration.

The letter reads in part,

The “American Health Care Act” protects life in two ways. First, it includes language similar to the Hyde amendment that ensures abortion is not paid for or incentivized through the federal healthcare programs created in the Obamacare replacement, including tax credits for health insurance. Second if enacted, it would, for the first time, cut off federal Medicaid funding for certain abortion providers. Both of these pro-life policies are essential to the bill, and must be retained all the way to final passage.

Most Americans believe abortion ought to be illegal in some or all circumstances. No one should be forced to subsidize abortion or abortion providers with their tax dollars.

You can read the entire letter here.

PA Abortion Clinic Closed Thanks to Health Dept. Inspection

Jun 9, 2017Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Right to Life, Sanctity of Human Life

An abortion clinic in Pennsylvania was shut down earlier this week following a surprise inspection from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

The inspection reportedly found “serious deficiencies and violations” at the clinic.

This is significant, because Arkansas recently passed a law strengthening Health Department inspection requirements regarding abortion clinics.

Like Pennsylvania, inspections in Arkansas must be unannounced. The new law makes it clear abortion clinics must be inspected at least annually and that the Department of Health will close an abortion clinic that fails inspection.

As we have said before, laws like this one make it easier to shut abortion clinics down. That’s what is happening in other states. Hopefully it happens in Arkansas, too.

Construction Begins on Ten Commandments Monument

Jun 9, 2017Jerry CoxReligious FreedomReligious Freedom, Religious Liberty, Ten Commandments

Ground has been broken on the Capitol lawn for the state’s new Ten Commandments monument.

In 2015 the Arkansas Legislature passed a law authorizing the placement of a monument of the Ten Commandments on the Capitol grounds.

Earlier this spring the State Capitol Arts and Ground Commission authorized the monument as a formality before construction could officially begin.

The monument is similar to a monument ruled constitutional in Texas, and is being privately funded. It celebrates the influence and legacy of the Ten Commandments in western law.