Babies Saved From Abortion in Little Rock

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Good news!

On Tuesday afternoon the group 40 Days for Life posted on Facebook that a baby was saved from being aborted at Little Rock’s surgical abortion facility.

The group posted,

Wonderful news from today, even though the 40 Days campaign hasn’t officially started yet … a young couple who went into the abortion clinic today changed their mind and chose life for their baby! Pray for them as they start the journey of parenting.

Two weeks earlier, the group wrote that another baby was saved from abortion as well.

This is really great news!

40 Days for Life hosts prayer vigils outside abortion facilities across America — including the surgical abortion facility in Little Rock — twice a year.

Their spring vigil is happening right now.

Pro-lifers will gather for peaceful prayer outside abortion facilities from now until Easter.

If you would like to be part of the prayer vigils in Little Rock, visit 40DaysForLife.com/LittleRock.

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Arkansas Lottery Rolls Out More Scratch-Off Tickets

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Earlier this month the Arkansas Lottery rolled out five new scratch-off tickets that sell for anywhere from $1 to $10 each.

They are:

  • Lucky 7 ($1)
  • Jumbo Bucks Maximum ($2)
  • Scrabble Crossword ($3)
  • Power 5 ($5)
  • $200,000 Jackpot ($10)

Scratch-off tickets are controversial, because they are tied to problem gambling and gambling addiction.

For example, a 2015 study in Canada described them as “paper slot machines.” 

A 2018 study published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions also found a link between how often a person played scratch-off tickets and the severity of a person’s gambling problem.

Besides being addictive, scratch-off tickets are not as profitable for the Arkansas Lottery as draw games like Powerball and MegaMillions.

In spite of all of this, the Arkansas Lottery still relies very heavily on scratch-off tickets.

Most of the revenue from the Arkansas Lottery’s scratch-off tickets is spent on prizes for lottery players.

With the Arkansas Lottery’s five newest scratch-off tickets, anywhere from 61% – 76% of the money from ticket sales goes straight to prizes. Very little goes to college scholarships.

As long as the state-run lottery depends on scratch-off tickets and spends most of its money on prizes, it will never provide as much funding as possible for Arkansas’ college scholarships.

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