NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, January 18, 2013
Family Council President Jerry Cox released a statement Friday celebrating the announcement Americans United for Life ranked Arkansas the fourth most pro-life state in the nation. This is up from fifth place in 2012.
“I’m proud to be an Arkansan for a lot of reasons,” Cox said. “This is just one more.”
Rep. Andy Mayberry (R-Hensley) has filed the first pro-life bill of the session.
H.B. 1037, also known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibits abortion once an unborn child is capable of feeling pain—roughly twenty weeks into a pregnancy—except to save the life of the mother or prevent “substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”
The bill has more than fifty sponsors in the House of Representatives, meaning if it makes it out of the House Public Health Committee, it is bound to pass the entire House.
As the French government has taken new, radical steps to eliminate gender from many of its laws–including laws pertaining to homosexuality and marriage–French officials are asking Twitter to help censor messages from its people that run counter to the government’s genderless message.
Alan Sears with Alliance Defending Freedom writes
When a society’s laws recognizing marriage as the union of one man and one woman are changed to honor the unions of same-sex couples, it’s not just the law that changes—it’s also the society itself that changes. A top-down metamorphosis begins in which every aspect of public law changes to match the new definition of marriage.
Today, this is playing out in France with great clarity.