Student Organization to Host Planned Parenthood at UCA

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The Feminist Union at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway announced today that an organizer for Planned Parenthood Great Plains will speak at the group’s general meeting this week.

Planned Parenthood Great Plains is Planned Parenthood’s affiliate for Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas.

As we reported in January, the UCA Feminist Union was among the student groups that supported a recent pro-abortion rally in Little Rock.

Planned Parenthood is actively promoting its agenda in Arkansas.

Last fall the organization posted a job opening for a Sexual Health Education intern to assist “with the development and implementation of sexual health education programs for students” in Little Rock and the surrounding area.

Planned Parenthood’s political action committee in Arkansas also has endorsed candidates in the March 3 primaries and appears to be actively fundraising ahead of the November elections.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading abortionist. An estimated one in three abortions occurs in a Planned Parenthood facility. There’s simply no reason to let abortion groups promote their work on college campuses.

Photo Credit: New Logo Reveal by University of Central Arkansas, on Flickr.

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Planned Parenthood Endorsing Candidates in Arkansas

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Planned Parenthood’s Arkansas group has endorsed two candidates ahead of the March 3 primaries, and presumably will support others between now and November.

Nationwide, Planned Parenthood has pledged to spend at least $45 million on elections this year.

The group’s goal is to unseat pro-life officials and elect candidates who support abortion.

Besides endorsing candidates, the organization’s political action committee also has been actively fundraising in Arkansas.

According to the most recent reports filed with the Secretary of State’s office, the group has somewhere around $13,000 – $14,000 that it could spend campaigning in Arkansas this year.

Arkansas is the second most pro-life state in America, and most Arkansans believe abortion should be either completely illegal or legal only in certain circumstances. But that doesn’t mean groups like Planned Parenthood are throwing in the towel.

Pro-lifers need to remain engaged in Arkansas to make sure the state continues standing up for the lives of unborn children.

Photo Credit: Planned Parenthood Sticker by dogra on Flickr.

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Attorney General Rutledge Asks Court to Let Arkansas Enforce Pro-Life Laws

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Last week Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s office filed arguments asking the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to let the state enforce three pro-life laws the legislature passed last year:

  • Act 493 of 2019, prohibiting abortion after the eighteenth week of pregnancy, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.
  • Act 619 of 2019, prohibiting abortion of an unborn baby solely because the child has Down Syndrome.
  • Act 700 of 2019, requiring abortion doctors to be board certified or board eligible OB/GYNs.

These laws passed with overwhelming support from state lawmakers, but abortionists filed a lawsuit last June to have the laws overturned.

As a result, U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker issued an injunction blocking the state from enforcing the laws. Attorney General Rutledge’s office has asked the Eighth Circuit to vacate Judge Baker’s injunction.

In last week’s arguments, the A.G.’s office noted that Judge Baker’s injunction “prohibited Arkansas from pursuing three goals: reducing brutal, late-term abortions; outlawing discriminatory abortions that devalue people already living with Down Syndrome; and protecting women from incompetent abortion practitioners.”

As I’ve said many times, I don’t know of any attorney general in America who is doing more to fight for the right to life than Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge.

Her team has tirelessly defended good laws like these, and I am confident that Arkansas will win some big, pro-life victories in federal court.

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