Pro-Abortion Group Believed to Be Targeting These 23 Counties

Last week, announcements were posted on pro-life social media pages indicating that canvassers for the Arkansas Abortion Amendment may intend to target 23 specific counties with what some have referred to as “super signing weekends” in the final stages of their petition drive.

Arkansans for Limited Government has until July 5 to collect 90,704 valid petition signatures to place the Arkansas Abortion Amendment on the ballot. To date, much of the group’s canvassing efforts have been focused on central and northwest Arkansas.

The group is believed to be focusing on these 23 counties during the final weeks of its petition drive:

Arkansas
Ashley
Calhoun
Chicot
Cleveland
Columbia
Dallas
Drew
Hempstead
Howard
Jackson
Lafayette
Lee
Lincoln
Little River
Logan
Monroe
Nevada
Ouachita
Phillips
Scott
Sevier
Woodruff

If passed, the Arkansas Abortion Amendment would write abortion into the state constitution, allowing thousands of elective abortions in Arkansas every year.

The amendment does not contain any medical licensing or health and safety standards for abortion.

The measure prevents the Arkansas Legislature from restricting abortion during the first five months of pregnancy, and it automatically nullifies all state laws that conflict with the amendment. That jeopardizes even the most basic health and safety restrictions on abortion.

The amendment’s health exceptions would permit abortion through all nine months of pregnancy in many cases.

It 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.

To date, multiple organizations have come out against the amendment, including: