Pro-Abortion Groups Rally in Arkansas

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Over the weekend, pro-abortion groups held a rally on the steps of the Arkansas Capitol Building in Little Rock.

The rally was sponsored by the Arkansas Coalition for Reproductive Justice.

Speakers included:

  • Rep. Nicole Clowney (D – Fayetteville)
  • Cornelius Mabin
  • Dr. Alexandra Marshall
  • Dr. Stephanie Ho (formerly of Planned Parenthood in Fayetteville)
  • Dr. Joycelyn Elders (former US Surgeon General)

Sponsors reportedly included:

  • Arkansas Abortion Support Network (AASN)
  • Arkansas Association of University Women (AAUW)
  • Arkansas Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
  • Arkansas Sierra Club
  • Arkansas Society of Freethinkers (ASF)
  • Central Arkansas Pride
  • Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
  • Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP)
  • Progressive Arkansas Women PAC (PAWPAC)
  • Vector Health & Wellness
  • Central Arkansas Harm Reduction
  • Arkansas Transgender Equity Coalition (ARTEC)
  • Feminist Activism in Arkansas
  • Little Rock Central Arkansas Indivisible
  • National Organization for Women – Arkansas Chapter (NOW)
  • Arkansas United
  • Central Arkansas Democratic Socialists of America (CADSA)
  • Real Images

Student organizations supporting the event included:

  • UA Little Rock (UALR) AWARE
  • UA Little Rock (UALR) Bowen Law School If/When/How
  • UAMS Future Health Professionals for Reproductive Rights
  • UCA Feminist Union
  • Young Democrats of Arkansas Women’s Caucus

As we mentioned recently, the AWARE student group at UALR hosted an event last fall with Reproaction — a pro-abortion group who teaches women how to perform abortions at home.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that more than 300 people attended Saturday’s pro-abortion event.

It’s worth pointing out that the pro-abortion rally drew only a fraction of the attendance that the 2020 March for Life did the week before.

Arkansans are overwhelmingly pro-life, and abortion in Arkansas is at historic lows.

That’s part of the reason Arkansas is the second most pro-life state in America.

We are winning the fight to protect innocent human life in Arkansas, but there is still a lot of work left to do.

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Group Teaches Women To Perform Abortions at Home

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The pro-abortion group Reproaction reportedly has been hosting meetings in different states — including Arkansas — to teach women how to perform drug-induced abortions at home.

Vice.com writes,

Shortly after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, the reproductive justice group Reproaction decided to start hosting gatherings to teach people about self-managed abortion. So far, Reproaction has hosted 21 meetings across Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. — including the one in Columbia — where activists tell attendees about a regimen recommended by the World Health Organization. That protocol details how a drug called misoprostol can induce an at-home abortion, right down to the number of doses you would need to take and when.

Reproaction has hosted and participated in multiple pro-abortion events in Arkansas over the years.

Last January the group was part of a pro-abortion gathering at the Capitol Building in Little Rock.

In September the group was part of a panel on “abortion criminalization in Arkansas” at UALR.

All of this underscores why pro-life Arkansans need to remain active.

Arkansas is the second most pro-life state in the country, and most people believe abortion ought to be either completely illegal or legal only under certain circumstances.

Abortion in Arkansas will become largely illegal once the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision.

But the fact that pro-abortion groups are teaching women to perform drug-induced abortions at home simply goes to show that we have to do more than make abortion illegal.

We have to make abortion unthinkable as well.

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Arkansans Are Losing $100+ Million Every Year Playing the Lottery

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Family Council routinely writes about how the Arkansas Lottery budgets a pathetic amount of money for college scholarships and about how it preys on the poor and desperate with its heavy emphasis on scratch-off tickets — some of which cost as much as $20 a piece.

However, something that gets relatively little attention is the large amount of money that the Arkansas Lottery pulls out of the economy every year.

In Fiscal Year 2019 the Arkansas Lottery sold over half-a-billion dollars worth of lottery tickets — nearly $515.5 million.

The Arkansas Lottery paid out nearly $349.9 million in prizes.

All told, Arkansans lost over $165.6 million playing the lottery last year.

Right now the state is halfway through Fiscal Year 2020, and Arkansans have lost more than $74.1 million playing the lottery.

Lottery tickets aren’t the only form of gambling that Arkansans are losing money on.

Last year the Department of Finance and Administration found that Arkansans reported a total of over $244 million in gambling losses in 2017.

Together, the state lottery and casino gambling are draining millions upon millions of dollars out of the state economy every year.

Below is a table breaking down the amount of money people spent — and lost — on lottery tickets the past few years.

FY2020 (Partial) FY2019 FY2018 FY2017 FY2016
Total Lottery Ticket Sales $239,111,994.50 $515,493,507.00 $499,707,976.00 $449,141,028.00 $455,599,402.00
Total Lottery Prizes 164,958,958.21 349,876,222.00 341,895,420.00 306,429,388.00 308,947,315.00
Money Lost Playing the Lottery $74,153,036.29 $165,617,285.00 $157,812,556.00 $142,711,640.00 $146,652,087.00

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