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On Monday the group Arkansans for Limited Government announced it is working to place an abortion amendment on the ballot in Arkansas in 2024.
The proposed amendment’s wording is available here.
This amendment puts the lives of women and unborn children in jeopardy.
If approved, this amendment would permanently enshrine abortion in the Arkansas Constitution.
The amendment’s language would prevent Arkansas law from requiring abortionists to have parental consent before performing an abortion on an underage girl. Parental consent laws for abortion help protect children from trafficking and exploitation. Repealing those laws puts underage girls at risk.
The amendment’s wording also could permit abortion in Arkansas through all nine months of pregnancy — including late term abortion and partial-birth abortion. Most Americans oppose these abortion procedures, but this amendment could give them constitutional protection in Arkansas.
Family Council has worked for nearly 35 years to promote and protect the sanctity and dignity of innocent human life in Arkansas. If passed, this amendment would erase nearly four decades of good laws that protect women and unborn children from abortion. We are firmly committed to stopping abortion in our state.
Earlier this month Family Council joined 32 other pro-life public policy organizations defending an Iowa law before the state’s supreme court and arguing that unborn children are protected by the fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In July, Iowa’s general assembly passed a law generally prohibiting abortion if the unborn baby has a detectable heartbeat.
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit challenging the heartbeat law, and a county district court blocked the State of Iowa from enforcing it. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird appealed that lower court’s bad decision to the Iowa Supreme Court on November 8.
On November 15, Family Council joined 32 other pro-life, pro-family organizations filing an amicus brief in the case.
The brief argues that an unborn child in the mother’s womb is a “person” under the Fourteenth Amendment — which means the child is entitled to equal protection under the law.
We believe Iowa’s pro-life law is constitutional, and we trust the Iowa Supreme Court to uphold it. However, even if Iowa loses in state court, this case — and the amicus briefs filed in it — could set the stage for future pro-life victories in Iowa and elsewhere around the country. That’s something to look forward to.
Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.
