First Annual Day of Prayer for Arkansas Students
Wednesday marks the first annual Day of Prayer for Arkansas Students.
Marijuana Harms
According to Dr. Eric Voth in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “There exists clear medical evidence of increased psychiatric difficulties with marijuana use, including violence, psychosis, schizophrenia, manic episodes, worsening depression and suicide.”
These effects are particularly harmful for youth.
Of course, when it comes to public policy, the cat is largely out of the bag, and probably isn’t going back in. One thing, however, is becoming more and more clear with each study, despite what proponents claimed and promised: marijuana is not the harmless thing we were sold by advocates and the state.
For the record, states should not be in the business of promoting distractions to citizens in the first place, especially harmful ones used to self-medicate symptoms of loneliness, pain, or anxiety without actually addressing the root causes. But this is particularly disturbing when they accomplish this by overselling financial windfalls and underselling the social consequences.
Copyright 2021 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.
In Accordance With New Pro-Life Law, Little Rock Abortion Facilities Have Hospital Transfer Agreements With UAMS
Last week Family Council obtained documents from the Arkansas Department of Health via the state’s Freedom of Information Act showing that abortion facilities in Little Rock have hospital transfer agreements with UAMS.
Act 740 of 2021 by Sen. Ben Gilmore (R – Crossett) and Rep. Mary Bentley (R – Perryville) requires each abortion facility to have a transfer agreement with a local hospital and a transport agreement with a local ambulance service.
Act 740 is similar to a Kentucky law that has survived legal challenge. It helps protect women and babies who may be victims of botched abortions.
Arkansas currently has two licensed abortion facilities — both of which are in Little Rock: Planned Parenthood and Little Rock Family Planning Services.
Planned Parenthood recently opened a facility in Rogers, but it is not yet licensed to perform abortions.
According to documents from the Arkansas Department of Health, Planned Parenthood in Little Rock has an ambulance transport agreement with MEMS and a hospital transfer agreement with UAMS.
Little Rock Family Planning Services has an ambulance transport agreement with MEMS and a hospital transfer agreement with UAMS.
We have written time and time again about ambulances sighted at the surgical abortion facility in Little Rock over the years. Incidents like these underscore why it is so important for Arkansas to pass pro-life legislation like Act 740 that will stop abortion and protect women from dangerous abortion procedures.