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Texas Passes Pro-Life “Heartbeat Bill” Similar to Arkansas’

May 21, 2021Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

This week Texas passed a good, pro-life law prohibiting abortion if the unborn baby’s heartbeat is detected.

It’s similar to a law Arkansas passed a little over eight years ago.

In 2013 the Arkansas Legislature passed S.B. 134 by Sen. Jason Rapert generally prohibiting abortion after the twelfth week of pregnancy if a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

Pro-abortion groups filed a lawsuit to block the state from enforcing this good, pro-life measure.

In the end, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals struck most of the law, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case.

However, the courts left the law’s informed-consent requirements in place, and some parts of the Eighth Circuit’s ruling actually gave Arkansas a framework for passing additional pro-life legislation in 2015 and 2017.

If Texas’ law is challenged, it’s possible their courts will rule differently and we could all get a pro-life victory out of the case.

All of this underscores that slowly, but surely, we are winning the fight against abortion.

Abortion Supporters Say Arkansas Has Enacted a Near-Record Number of Pro-Life Laws This Year

May 5, 2021Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

Recently the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization closely aligned with Planned Parenthood published a report saying that 2021 is on track to be the most anti-abortion year in decades.

The report says,

Five states—Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Oklahoma—enacted restrictions on abortion clinics, an issue that has not been hot in state legislatures since the Supreme Court in 2016 struck down regulations enacted in Texas. Most notably, Arkansas and Kentucky passed laws making it easier for state agencies to close abortion clinics.
Furthermore, a disturbing record was set this week: With its enactment of a new restriction on abortion clinics, Arkansas has now enacted 20 restrictions in 2021, tying Louisiana’s 1978 record for the most restrictions in a single year.

By our count, Arkansas enacted 14 excellent, pro-life laws during the past legislative session. That’s certainly a record for the Arkansas Legislature.

These new laws could save thousands of women and unborn children from abortion in the years to come. That’s something to celebrate.

Photo Credit: Planned Parenthood Sticker by dogra on Flickr.

Pro-Lifers Save Mom and Unborn Baby From Abortion in Little Rock

Apr 30, 2021Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

On Tuesday our friends at Save The Storks shared a remarkable story on Instagram about a mom and unborn baby recently saved from abortion outside the Planned Parenthood facility in Little Rock.

Save The Storks and Arkansas Pregnancy Center in Little Rock work together to give women in Arkansas real options besides abortion.

Save The Storks writes,

After a long year of pandemic restrictions, the staff at Arkansas Pregnancy Center (APC) finally had the chance to take their Stork Bus into the community. Staff members and new volunteers worked hard to secure a parking spot near their community’s local Planned Parenthood.
However, the day before the launch, the sonogram machine stopped working.
They immediately attempted to get the machine fixed, but there were no technicians available.
Tracy, the executive director at APC, texted the news about the sonogram machine to the clinical director Janet*, worried they might have to delay their trip.
Janet responded: “God’s got this.”
After deliberation and prayer, the staff decided to move forward with their mobile outing for the day with no working sonogram.
Then the mobile unit’s sonographer showed up, and just so happened to have a sonogram machine in her car.
The pregnancy center was able to get back on the road, and a few hours later Janelle* boarded the Stork Bus.
She was en route to Planned Parenthood to take the abortion pill. But on her way she prayed that God would show her a sign on whether or not she should go through with the abortion. Then she saw the brightly colored mobile unit.
“I knew that was my sign,” Janelle said.
She wept as she saw her baby on the screen with a fully formed body. That day, Janelle chose life for her baby, despite being scared.
Janet was right – God’s got this.