The Arkansas Democratic House Caucus is promoting a slate of bad legislation as part of its “2025 Better Arkansas Agenda.”
The caucus is made up of Democratic legislators serving in the Arkansas House of Representatives. On Tuesday the caucus held a press conference unveiling its legislative package for next year. The caucus also posted a statement on social media promoting three bad bills that violate the sanctity and dignity of human life — H.B. 1011, H.B. 1013, and H.B. 1014.
Arkansas’s extreme abortion ban hurts maternal health. Right now, women cannot legally get an abortion even if their own health is in danger. And our laws are causing ob-gyns to leave the state. By trusting women and their doctors, we can improve maternal health. #arleg #arpx pic.twitter.com/PCLK2O7R1X
— Arkansas House Democrats (@arhousedems) November 26, 2024
H.B. 1011 — the “Restore Roe Act” by Rep. Andrew Collins (D — Little Rock) — is a bad bill that would repeal Arkansas’ pro-life laws and legalize abortion throughout the state.
H.B. 1013 by Rep. Collins is a bad bill that would let fertility clinics in Arkansas create and kill human embryos as part of unethical in vitro fertilization — or IVF — practices, and H.B. 1014 by Rep. Collins would require the State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Program to pay for these IVF practices.
IVF labs in America often operate almost as if human embryos were a factory product that lab workers can create, implant, freeze, or kill at will. But people aren’t products. There are ethical fertility treatments out there — including ethical approaches to IVF — but H.B. 1013 and H.B. 1014 fail to distinguish ethical fertility treatments from from unethical ones.
Unethical IVF will not improve maternal health in Arkansas. And abortion hurts women and takes the lives of unborn children. Laws like these simply will not make Arkansas “better” in 2025.
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