Ohio ACLU Continues to Challenge Pro-Life Laws Under State’s Abortion Amendment

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The ACLU in Ohio has continued to challenge pro-life laws under the state’s recently enacted abortion amendment.

Last month, the ACLU filed a motion in court challenging state laws that restrict “telemed” abortions and that prevent certain healthcare professionals — such as physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse midwives — from administering abortion drugs.

The ACLU has also joined a lawsuit in Ohio challenging informed-consent laws that require abortionists to give women information about abortion and provide them with at least 24 hours to consider their options before proceeding with the abortion.

Since Ohio enshrined abortion in its state constitution last year, the lawsuits claim informed-consent requirements and medical licensing laws unconstitutionally restrict abortions in the state. Cases like these provide a glimpse of what could happen if the Arkansas Abortion Amendment of 2024 passes this year.

The proposed Arkansas Abortion Amendment would write abortion into the state constitution.

It says the state cannot “prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion” during the first five months of pregnancy — allowing thousands of elective abortions every year and paving the way for taxpayer-funded abortions in Arkansas.

The amendment does not contain any medical licensing requirements for abortionists.

The Arkansas Abortion Amendment also creates various exceptions permitting abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy, and it nullifies all state abortion laws that conflict with the amendment — which jeopardizes basic health and safety standards for abortion.

These lawsuits in Ohio show just how easily abortion laws in Arkansas could be challenged in court if unrestricted abortion is written into the state constitution.

To date, multiple organizations have come out against the abortion amendment, including:

  • Arkansas Right to Life
  • Family Council Action Committee
  • Choose Life Arkansas
  • NWA Coalition for Life
  • The Arkansas Committee For Ethics Policy
  • The Catholic Diocese of Little Rock
  • Saline Decline to Sign
  • Stronger Arkansas
  • Stop Abortion On Demand
  • Students for Life of America

You can download a copy of the Arkansas Abortion Amendment here.

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Arkansas State Police Seize Illegal Marijuana, Weapons From Out of State

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Above: A photo of illegal marijuana and weapons authorities reportedly seized earlier this month.

Earlier this month authorities in Arkansas reportedly seized illegal marijuana and weapons from out of state during a traffic stop.

In a press release, the Arkansas State Police wrote,

On Saturday, June 15, 2024, Arkansas State Police (ASP) stopped a white Mitsubishi SUV for a traffic violation on Interstate 40 East near the 79-mile marker in Pope County.

During a search of the vehicle, ASP Troopers discovered 10 pounds of high-grade, illegal marijuana and two weapons. The weapons included a .300 Blackout Pistol and a Glock 30 with an aftermarket “switch” attached, making the pistol fully automatic, which is illegal to possess.

The two men in the vehicle, identified as William Morgan, 23, of Alton, Illinois, and Jahmezze Holman, 25, of Waco, Texas, were arrested and taken to the Pope County Detention Center.
Morgan is facing felony charges for Perpetrating a Crime with a Machine Gun, Possession with Intent to Deliver, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Simultaneous Possession of Drugs and Firearms. Holman has been charged with felony Possession with Intent to Deliver, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Possession of Firearms by a Certain Person, and Simultaneous Possession of Drugs and Firearms.
Morgan told investigators that he was traveling from Oklahoma City to West Memphis.

We have written repeatedly about how marijuana’s legalization in other states has actually fueled the black market rather than weakening it.

California’s Unified Cannabis Enforcement Taskforce seized more than $312 million worth of illegal marijuana in 2023.

Oregon has been inundated by industrial scale marijuana cultivation sites operated illegally by organized crime and drug cartels. Some of these marijuana operations are tied to labor trafficking and violent crime.

Oklahoma authorities describe illicit marijuana as a problem that “plagues” their state.

Right now the group Arkansans for Patient Access is actively working to drastically expand marijuana in Arkansas.

The group has until July 5 to collect 90,704 petition signatures from registered voters to place the marijuana amendment on the ballot.

If passed, the amendment would give free marijuana cards to immigrants and out-of-state residents who come to Arkansas to use marijuana.

The amendment would guarantee marijuana growers and sellers a monopoly over the state’s marijuana industry.

Marijuana users would no longer need to show they suffer from a specific medical condition listed in state law — making it easier to use marijuana recreationally.

The measure also fails to limit the amount of THC that marijuana products can contain, and it repeals restrictions on marijuana advertising.

All of this would lead to more marijuana in the state.

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

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