Come to a Pro-Life Rally Next Week!

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You are invited to a free pro-life rally next week!

On Friday, August 29, Family Council will join Family Research Council Action, Susan B. Anthony List, Concerned Women for America, and Students for Life of America for a pro-life rally in the Arkansas Capitol Building.

The rally will be held in the Rotunda of the State Capitol Building in Little Rock from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

The goal of the rally is to draw attention to the federal Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and urge Senators to support the bill and allow it to come up for a vote in the U.S. Senate.

This is commonsense, pro-life legislation that tracks closely with a law passed in Arkansas last year.

Confirmed speakers for the rally include Josh Duggar of Family Research Council Action; Jerry Cox of Family Council; and Laurie Lee of Susan B. Anthony List.

Click here to register for the event FOR FREE. If you have any questions about the rally, please call our office at (501) 375-7000. We hope to see you there!

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“Eugenics Just Got Miniaturized”

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John Stonestreet from the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview has a short, one-minute radio spot explaining a troubling way in which eugenics is making a comeback in our society.

Generally speaking, eugenics is the idea that:

  • Some people’s lives are made unlivable by the burden of disease or disability, or
  • Some people represent an undue burden to others due to disease, disability, ethnicity, or some similar factor.

Historically, the solution eugenics offers to this “burden” has almost always been to kill the person in question or forcibly sterilize them, preventing them from reproducing.

Stonestreet writes,

It’s the 19th-century pseudoscience at the root of Nazism and the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous Buck v. Bell forced sterilization decision. But Eugenics, the idea that some lives are unworthy of life, is far from dead. In fact, it’s making a subtle and troubling comeback.

Doctors in the U.K. have just announced that they’ve pioneered the most effective embryo-screening technique to date, allowing couples with potential genetic illnesses to avoid giving birth to genetically diseased children.

‘Parents at risk of passing on a genetic disorder,’ said Paul Serhal, at the Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health, ‘are faced with heartbreaking implications. . . [This] breakthrough…means that parents affected may be able to pursue treatment confident that their condition wouldn’t be handed down.’

Stonestreet goes on to say the “treatment” parents could seek would most likely be abortion. Listen to the full radio spot below.

[audio:http://bit.ly/1q4C4bp|titles=John Stonestreet – It’s Still Eugenics]

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Lottery Commission Lowers Budget for 2015

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According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, on Wednesday the Arkansas Lottery Commission lowered its budget for the next year, cutting scholarship funding by $3 million to a total $78.2 million. This is $3.3 million less than the Arkansas Lottery paid in scholarships this past year.

We have written before how the Arkansas Lottery Commission has struggled to live up to its promises. Scholarship funding has never reached the levels promised in 2008; the Arkansas Lottery Commission has cut scholarship funds time and time again, but has somehow managed to afford new employees, raises, and bonuses; and lottery officials, in the past, have openly defied members of the Arkansas Legislature.

We’ve been saying it for nearly five years, but the problem down at the Arkansas Lottery Commission is not a revenue problem or a budget problem; it’s a priorities problem. Scholarships are the last bill the Lottery pays and the first thing they cut if ticket sales drop. This latest budget cut is simply another verse in that same old song.

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