Important: Senator Rapert Files Heartbeat Bill

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This afternoon Senator Jason Rapert (R-Bigelow) filed SB134, the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act.

This act would prevent abortion upon detection of a fetal heartbeat, except to save the life of the mother and in cases of rape or incest.

Important: Senator Rapert has 18 co-sponsors on the bill in the Arkansas Senate and 22 co-sponsors in the Arkansas House of Representatives. Your Senator and Representative need to hear from you. Contact your senator and your representative, and ask each of them to support SB134, the Human Heartbeat Protection Act, by Senator Jason Rapert.

  • The phone number for the Arkansas Senate is 501-682-2902.
  • The phone number for the Arkansas House of Representatives is 501-682-6211.

We will have more information in the future. In the meantime, you can read the bill here.

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Rep. Wilkins Files Obamacare Abortion Opt-Out Legislation

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Rep. Butch Wilkins has filed legislation to opt Arkansas out of paying for abortions under Obamacare.

HB1100 would ensure no public funds would be used to pay for an abortion under Obamacare’s state health insurance exchanges.

We look forward to working with lawmakers and our friends at Arkansas Right to Life to ensure Arkansans’ tax dollars do not go to subsidize procedures that violate their deeply-held convictions about the sanctity of human life.

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Pew Study: No ‘Gender Gap’ on Roe v. Wade

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A recently released joint study by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life has found there is no significant gender gap when it comes to the issue of abortion.

“There is no gender gap in opinions about Roe v. Wade,” the study said. “Nearly identical percentages of women (64%) and men (63%) oppose reversing the decision.”

Despite the fact a little over 60% of respondents oppose overturning Roe v. Wade, 47% of respondents said abortion is morally wrong; only 13% said it is morally acceptable to have an abortion; and 27% said it is not a moral issue.

Women were actually more likely to say abortion is immoral than men, with 49% of women saying abortion is morally wrong as opposed to 45% of men. Only 10% of women said abortion is morally acceptable as opposed to 16% of men.

This would seem contrary to the “war on women” so many have talked about in recent months, which tends to characterize women as being overwhelmingly pro-choice. This study seems to indicate women are more likely to say abortion is immoral, and less likely embrace it as the right thing to do.

The study also found young people are least aware of Roe v. Wade and what the decision does.

You can read the entire study here.

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