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Little Rock Abortion Facility Owner Faces Two Counts of Assault for Nearly Striking Pro-Lifers With Vehicle

Feb 9, 2022Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Pro-life

On Tuesday Family Council obtained documents from the Little Rock Police Department via the Freedom of Information Act indicating that law enforcement arrested abortion facility owner Natalie Tvedten on January 4.

According to the LRPD’s warrant and arrest report, Tvedten faces two counts of Assault in the First Degree, a Class A Misdemeanor. Under Arkansas law, a Class A misdemeanor is punishable by a fine of up to $2,500 and up to one year in jail.

According to the warrant and police report, on July 13, 2021, Ms. Tvedten allegedly tried to strike two pro-lifers — Ms. Denise Shewmake and Ms. Kimberly Puska — with her car while they were praying on the public easement outside Little Rock Family Planning Services — Arkansas’ only surgical abortion facility.

Ms. Tvedten is one of the owners of the abortion facility, according to court documents from 2020. The arrest report lists Tvedten’s address as 4 Office Park Drive in Little Rock, which matches the address of Little Rock Family Planning Services. Tvedten’s attorney did not immediately respond to an email requesting a comment.

Below is video footage Family Council obtained from the the alleged July 13 incident last year via Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act.

Family Council has collected Little Rock Police reports documenting multiple close calls that pro-lifers have had with vehicles outside the surgical abortion facility.

Information posted on the website for Arkansas’ courts indicates that Tvedten’s case will go to trial in Little Rock on Tuesday, April 5, 2022.

Below are the documents Family Council obtained from the LRPD via the state’s Freedom of Information Act:

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

Jonesboro Public Library Hires New Director Following Controversies Over Pro-LGBT, Sexually-Explicit Reading Materials

Feb 7, 2022Jerry CoxFamilyFamily, Obscenity, Pornography

On Thursday the Jonesboro Sun reported that the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library Board hired Vanessa Adams to serve as the library’s new executive director. The decision comes after the library’s previous executive director and assistant director resigned late last year.

The Jonesboro Public Library made headlines multiple times in recent months over controversial material in the library’s children’s section.

In June the library placed a large selection of pro-LGBT material in its children’s library area. One mother noted that the picture books showed very young children identifying with different sexual-orientations. The publishers’ age range for these books reportedly was as young as four years old.

In October a Fort Smith attorney and a former library board member filed a lawsuit alleging that the library board’s Sensitive Content Subcommittee violated Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act.

The lawsuit alleged that the subcommittee met after learning that “several books in the library’s children’s section contain nudity, sexual conduct, and graphic images of various sexual acts,” but failed to properly advertise the subcommittee meeting to the public ahead of time as required by state law.

Because the meeting was not advertised, parents and families did not know that the subcommittee was meeting to discuss the presence of sexually-explicit material in the children’s library — meaning they did not have an opportunity to make their voices heard about the graphic material.

Following the controversy, the Jonesboro Sun reports that the Jonesboro Public Library’s executive director and assistant director submitted their resignations late last year, citing “the surrounding uproar following the gay pride display as the reason for their departures.”

Families should be able to walk into a public library without worrying about the books that might be in the children’s area. Hopefully, families in Jonesboro will be able to do that in the future.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

Human Extinction?

Feb 7, 2022John StonestreetEthicsEthics, Life, Sanctity of Human Life

*John Stonestreet, Radio Host and Director of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview*

In a recent essay, Oxford Professor Roger Crisp toyed with the idea that human extinction may not be a bad thing after all. With so much suffering on Earth, he argues, if NASA were to locate a massive asteroid hurtling towards our planet, we would be justified in letting it obliterate us. 

“I am not claiming that extinction would be good;” Crisp clarified, “only that, since it might be, we should devote a lot more attention to thinking about the value of extinction than we have to date.” 

This is an Oxford philosopher of ethics, but he’s wrestling with an idea that long ago left the ivory tower.

Wesley Smith of the Discovery Institute put it this way: “With our supposedly best minds suggesting that human extinction could be desirable, is it any wonder that so many of our young people seem to be despairing?” 

When God is taken out of the moral picture, reason evaporates, as does the rest of our moral logic. Someone tell Bruce Willis and the rest of his team from Armageddon, the mission is off.