Official reports from the Arkansas Department of Health’s Vital Statistics show no abortions occurred in the state during 2023.
Arkansas law generally prohibits abortion, but it contains exceptions for situations in which the mother’s life is at risk.
The state publishes annual reports every June documenting the number of abortions performed during the previous year.
The health department recently released three different reports showing the number of abortions performed last year, the number of women who experienced complications from abortion, and the number of abortions necessary to save the life of the mother. All three reports show 0 abortions during 2023.
In the past, Arkansas has averaged around 3,200 abortions per year. All in all, our team estimates Arkansas’ pro-life laws are protecting thousands of women and unborn children from abortion each year.
These reports are great news. Arkansas has successfully prohibited abortion except to save the life of the mother. Arkansas’ pro-life laws are protecting women, and they are saving unborn children. That is something to celebrate.
Right now an effort is underway in Arkansas that would repeal Arkansas’ pro-life laws and write abortion into the state constitution.
If passed, the Arkansas Abortion Amendment would allow thousands of elective abortions in Arkansas every year.
The amendment does not contain any medical licensing or health and safety standards for abortion.
It contains sweeping health exceptions that would permit abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy in many cases.
The amendment also would pave the way for publicly funded abortion in Arkansas by changing Amendment 68 to the Arkansas Constitution that currently prohibits taxpayer funded abortion in the state.
You can download a copy of the Arkansas Abortion Amendment here.
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