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Most Americans Still Say It’s Morally Wrong to Change Genders

Jun 25, 2024Jerry CoxLGBTLGBT, SAFE Act, Transgender

Earlier this month Gallup released a survey showing most Americans still believe it is morally wrong to change genders.

The findings track with Gallup’s survey results from 2021 and 2023 — which also found most people believe it’s morally wrong to change genders, and that a growing share of Americans think athletes ought to compete according to their biological sex rather than their gender identity.

Oddly, the same Gallup survey published this month found most Americans oppose “laws that ban certain types of gender-affirming care for minors.”

But the survey’s questions about “gender-affirming care” were not as straightforward as its questions about whether it’s right or wrong to change genders. With that in mind, it is possible that the wording of the questions may have biased or simply confused the survey’s participants.

Regardless, it’s important for people to understand that more and more, scientific evidence shows sex-reassignment procedures are harmful to children.

Three years ago a major hospital in Sweden announced that it would no longer give puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids. This year the United Kingdom announced a new policy protecting children from being given puberty-blocking drugs.

In 2021 the Arkansas Legislature overwhelmingly passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. The SAFE Act is a good law that protects children in Arkansas from cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and sex-reassignment surgeries. That law is currently tied up in court, but we believe our judicial system ultimately will recognize that it is a good law and uphold it as constitutional.

It is important for our laws to protect children from sex-change procedures and give them legal options they can follow if they are harmed by one of these procedures. Laws like Arkansas’ SAFE Act do exactly that.

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

Abortion Amendment Campaign Spent $200K+ on Petition Effort Last Month

Jun 24, 2024Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Abortion Amendment, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

The group working to enshrine abortion into the Arkansas Constitution spent more then $200,000 on its campaign last month, according to reports filed with the Arkansas Ethics Commission.

The campaign received $11,688 in donations during that time. Most of the group’s expenses appeared to be focused on collecting signatures for the abortion amendment.

Arkansans for Limited Government has until July 5 to collect 90,704 valid signatures from registered voters to place the Arkansas Abortion Amendment on the November ballot.

The measure would write abortion into the state constitution, allowing thousands of elective abortions in Arkansas every year.

The amendment does not contain any medical licensing or health and safety standards for abortion, and it automatically nullifies all state laws that conflict with the amendment. That jeopardizes even the most basic restrictions on abortion.

The measure contains sweeping exceptions that would permit abortion through all nine months of pregnancy in many cases.

The amendment also would pave the way for publicly funded abortion in Arkansas by changing Amendment 68 to the Arkansas Constitution that currently prohibits taxpayer funded abortion in the state.

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

The Arkansas House of Representatives
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.

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

Gallup Finds Pro-Abortion Voters Have Rallied Following Reversal of Roe v. Wade

Jun 24, 2024Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Abortion Amendment, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

As we mark the second anniversary of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, Gallup reports pro-abortion voters have rallied in America.

In an article published earlier this month, Gallup noted,

A record-high 32% of U.S. voters say they would only vote for a candidate for major office who shares their views on abortion. The importance of a candidate’s abortion stance to one’s vote is markedly higher among pro-choice voters than it was during the 2020 presidential election cycle, while pro-life voters’ intensity about voting on the abortion issue has waned. Also, voters’ greater intensity on the issue today compared with 2020 is explained mainly by Democrats, while Republicans and independents have shown little change.

Gallup notes that voters who support abortion are significantly more likely to say it’s important for future U.S. Supreme Court nominees share their views on abortion today than they were 20 years ago.

In other words, it seems there is simply greater intensity surrounding the abortion issue today than there was a few years ago — especially among voters who were already inclined to support abortion.

Given the deep divide over abortion right now, it is no surprise that abortion’s supporters are working to write it into the Arkansas Constitution.

Arkansans for Limited Government has until July 5 to collect 90,704 valid signatures from registered voters to place the Arkansas Abortion Amendment on the November ballot.

If passed, the Arkansas Abortion Amendment would write abortion into the state constitution, allowing thousands of elective abortions in Arkansas every year.

The amendment does not contain any medical licensing or health and safety standards for abortion.

The measure prevents the Arkansas Legislature from restricting abortion during the first five months of pregnancy, and it automatically nullifies all state laws that conflict with the amendment. That jeopardizes even the most basic health and safety restrictions on abortion.

The amendment’s health exceptions would permit abortion through all nine months of pregnancy in many cases.

It also would pave the way for publicly funded abortion in Arkansas by changing Amendment 68 to the Arkansas Constitution that currently prohibits taxpayer funded abortion in the state.

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