Arkansas Ranked Most Pro-Life State in America For Third Year In a Row

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Thursday, January 5, 2023

Little Rock, Ark. — On Thursday Americans United for Life announced that Arkansas is the most pro-life state in America for the third year in a row. The pro-life organization ranks all fifty states based on state laws protecting the unborn, the elderly, the disabled, and the terminally ill.

Family Council President Jerry Cox released a statement saying, “This is incredible news. Arkansas has the best laws in the nation when it comes to protecting innocent human life from conception until natural death. Arkansans should be proud of their state legislators for enacting such good laws. That’s something to celebrate.”

Cox said that keeping Arkansas the most pro-life state in America has taken a lot of work by many different people. “By working together, Arkansans have helped Arkansas remain the most pro-life state in the country. Arkansas Right to Life has been fighting abortion for over forty years, and Family Council has been at it for more than thirty years. Arkansas’ General Assembly has passed at least forty-seven good, pro-life laws since 2011. Ministers, churches, elected officials, pregnancy resource centers, and everyday Arkansans all have worked tirelessly to make Arkansas the pro-life state that it is today.”

Cox pointed out that Arkansas law generally prohibits abortion, and most Arkansans do not support abortion on demand. “It’s great to be the nation’s most pro-life state, but it’s even better that Arkansas has stopped aborting unborn children. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed Roe v. Wade, abortion is prohibited in Arkansas except to save the life of the mother. Even before that law went into effect, abortion in Arkansas had plummeted to historic lows. Public opinion polling has shown for years that Arkansans do not support abortion on demand, and more than forty pregnancy resource centers around the state help women and girls with unplanned pregnancies. Arkansas is a pro-life state, because Arkansans themselves are incredibly pro-life.”

Cox said even though Arkansas is the most pro-life state in the country, pro-life efforts are far from over. “Being pro-life is about much more than opposing abortion. It’s about protecting innocent human life at all stages from conception until natural death. We look forward to continuing to defend the sanctity of human life in Arkansas.”

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What Happened in Loudon County

Transgender

In December, the public school superintendent in Loudon County, Virginia, was fired and indicted for lying to parents about the rape of a young girl in a restroom by a male classmate. Covering the story, The Washington Post admitted the male student was wearing a skirt when he gained access to the girls’ restroom but then added that there was “no evidence” he was transgender. 

But for years now we’ve been told that anything and everything counts as evidence … the clothes someone chooses to wear, the pronouns they request, the restroom they choose, the gender they claim, or the plastic surgery they’ve had.

In the coverage of the Colorado Springs shooter, too, the press has been largely unwilling to concede that anyone who identifies as a protected sexual minority can do wrong. Both are examples of a Critical Theory mood that infects culture and the irrationality of reducing identity to inner feelings that justify all outer expressions.  

It’s always better and safer to base policy on objective biological reality.

Copyright 2025 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.

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