Pro-Lifers Look to Move In Next Door to Future Planned Parenthood Facility in Rogers

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Pro-lifers currently operate a mobile pregnancy resource unit next door to the facility that Planned Parenthood has acquired in Rogers.

American Family News reports that pro-lifers in Northwest Arkansas are working to move in next door to a facility that Planned Parenthood has acquired in Rogers.

Recently Family Council learned that Planned Parenthood has worked to acquire a facility in Rogers that could be used to perform abortions.

Since then, Planned Parenthood has confirmed that it intends to open a location in Northwest Arkansas, but at this time it is unknown when Planned Parenthood might start using the new facility.

In the meantime, pro-lifers in Northwest Arkansas are mobilizing to oppose Planned Parenthood and its pro-abortion agenda.

Dana Schwiethale, who heads Loving Choices Pregnancy Centers in Northwest Arkansas told American Family News,

I have contacted a home that is beside them [Planned Parenthood], and the lady is praying about … selling me the home. But as of right now, she’s allowing me to park the mobile unit, and it is right beside their parking lot.

Last week two of Family Council’s team members were able to visit the mobile unit that Loving Choices currently operates next door to the facility.

The mobile unit offers women free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds.

This is one way that pro-lifers in Northwest Arkansas are giving women real options besides abortion — just a few yards from Planned Parenthood’s front door.

Pro-lifers are also organizing a 40 Days for Life prayer campaign outside the facility beginning in September.

Hopefully pro-life Arkansans will have a more permanent presence next door to Planned Parenthood’s location in the coming months.

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Arkansas A.G. Will Ask Higher Court to Let the State Prohibit Abortions

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On Thursday Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s office appealed to the Eighth Circuit in a lawsuit over whether or not the state can prohibit abortions.

Act 309 of 2021 generally prohibits abortion in Arkansas except in cases when the mother’s life is in jeopardy. It is a good law that passed with overwhelming support from the state legislature earlier this year, and it 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.

Now the attorney general is going to ask the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to unblock the law.

A schedule produced by the Eighth Circuit indicates that the court will accept briefings in the case from the A.G.’s team and the ACLU throughout late September, October, and a good portion of November.

At this time we do not know when the court might issue a decision in the case.

Last June the A.G.’s team argued that pro-abortion rulings like Planned Parenthood v. Casey need to be reevaluated and overturned — and that the U.S. Supreme Court is liable to do that in its upcoming Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case out of Mississippi.

The A.G. also argued that past pro-abortion decisions like Roe v. Wade “were wrongly decided” and that “there is no doubt that the fetus is a human life — not mere tissue, not ‘potential life,’ and not ‘the product of conception.'”

The attorney general’s decision to appeal this lawsuit will give our federal courts an opportunity to reverse decades of bad case law on abortion.

That means there is potential for some landmark, pro-life victories down the road. Those victories could help stop abortion in Arkansas and elsewhere across the nation.

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