Arkansas Gets Three Pro-Life Safe Haven Baby Boxes in a Week

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Since Sunday, communities in Arkansas have unveiled three new pro-life Safe Haven Baby Boxes — meaning Arkansas now has a total of eight Safe Haven Baby Boxes statewide.

Arkansas’ Safe Haven Act of 2001 lets a woman surrender her newborn baby to law enforcement, medical personnel, and first responders. The law gives women with unplanned pregnancies an option besides abortion.

Similar laws are on the books in all 50 states.

Safe Haven Baby Boxes installed at fire stations let women surrender an infant safely and anonymously using a specialized, hospital-grade bassinet designed to keep the baby secure while a silent alarm notifies first responders inside the fire station that the baby is there.

On Sunday pro-lifers blessed Arkansas’ sixth Safe Haven Baby Box at Maumelle’s Fire Station 1.

The seventh box was installed on Monday at Fire Station 11 in Fort Smith.

And an eighth box was unveiled Tuesday morning at Fire Station 2 in El Dorado.

Since June of 2019, Arkansas Right to Life has promoted Arkansas’ Safe Haven Act and the Safe Haven Baby Boxes through a billboard campaign.

So far, billboards have been placed in 23 counties across Arkansas. Right to Life’s goal is to place billboards in all 75 counties in the state.

Safe Haven Baby Boxes are amazing pieces of pro-life technology. It’s good to see communities continue to install them in Arkansans.

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Circuit Court Won’t Decide Arkansas’ Abortion Ban Until After SCOTUS Rules on Mississippi Law

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Earlier this month the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals quietly announced it would wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case before considering the lawsuit over Arkansas’ new law that generally prevents abortion.

Act 309 of 2021 by Sen. Jason Rapert (R – Conway) and Rep. Mary Bentley (R – Perryville) prohibits abortion in Arkansas, except in cases when the mother’s life is in jeopardy. If enforced, this good law would save thousands of unborn children from abortion every year.

Act 309 was slated to take effect on July 28. However, the ACLU filed a lawsuit over Act 309, and U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker blocked the law just days before it was set to take effect.

In August, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge appealed Judge Baker’s decision to the Eighth Circuit.

However, earlier this year the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case.

That case deals with a law Mississippi passed in 2018 generally prohibiting abortion after the fifteenth week of pregnancy. Last May the ACLU dubbed Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health the “case that could decimate the constitutional right to abortion.”

In light of the fact that the court’s ruling on Mississippi’s pro-life law could affect pro-life legislation everywhere — including Arkansas — the Eighth Circuit has opted not to do anything with Arkansas’ Act 309 until the U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision.

Regardless of what the U.S. Supreme Court decides in Mississippi’s case, Arkansas has an opportunity to see decades of bad abortion rulings overturned or reinterpreted in a pro-life way.

Arkansas and other states have passed a record-setting number of pro-life laws this year.

Most of those laws have gone unchallenged, and they are saving the lives of unborn children in Arkansas right now.

Slowly but surely we are winning the fight against abortion.

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Pro-Abortion Groups Plan to March in Arkansas This Saturday — But Pro-Lifers Are Gathering Too

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Above: Pro-life events like the annual Life Chain have taken place in Arkansas for more than 30 years.

On Saturday, October 2, pro-abortion groups plan to “march for reproductive freedom” in five different cities across Arkansas:

  • Little Rock
  • Fayetteville
  • Jonesboro
  • Fort Smith
  • Mountain Home

The events are being promoted by groups such as the Arkansas Abortion Support Network and the Arkansas Coalition for Reproductive Justice.

Even though pro-abortion groups are planning events in Arkansas this weekend, pro-lifers are gathering too.

From now through October 31, prayer meetings are taking place daily outside the Planned Parenthood’s facilities in Little Rock and Rogers as part of the nationwide 40 Days for Life. Any pro-life Arkansan can take part in these prayer vigils.

Pro-lifers also will gather for Life Chain events across the state this Sunday.

These are locally organized events where pro-lifers gather to publicly support the right to life in their communities.

Life Chain events currently are scheduled in Little Rock, Fort Smith, and Rogers, among other places.

Ozark Right to Life is hosting the Life Chain on Sunday, October 3, at 2:00 p.m. in front of Planned Parenthood at 1222 W. Poplar Street in Rogers.

Again, the Life Chain events are family-friendly gatherings, and they are open to all pro-lifers in Arkansas.

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