Arkansas Right to Life Urges Voters to Decline to Sign Abortion Petition
Arkansas Right to Life is urging voters to decline to sign the abortion petition.
Pro-Life Groups Push Back as Abortion Supporters Work to Raise $15K, Collect 90K Signatures for Amendment
A recent article appearing on the Arkansas Times website highlights how supporters of the proposed Arkansas Abortion Amendment are working to raise $15,000 and collect 90,704 petition signatures to place the measure on the November ballot.
The Arkansas Abortion Amendment would legalize abortion in a way Arkansas has never seen before.
If passed, the amendment would write abortion into the Arkansas Constitution, allowing as many as 3,000 or more elective abortions on mothers carrying healthy, unborn babies every year.
The measure prevents the Arkansas Legislature from restricting abortion during the first five months of pregnancy, and it contains sweeping health exceptions for abortion throughout all nine months.
It also nullifies all state laws that conflict with the amendment — putting basic restrictions like parental consent and informed consent laws in jeopardy.
According to the article, the group backing the abortion amendment is preparing to train over 300 volunteers to collect petition signatures across the state.
But pro-life organizations in Arkansas are mobilizing to oppose the abortion amendment.
Arkansas Right to Life has announced a Decline to Sign campaign encouraging Arkansans not to sign petitions for the amendment.
Alisha See, Co-Lead Pastor of Reach Church in Centerton recently released a video urging people not to sign the abortion petition as well.
Family Council staff member Erin Hogan recently interviewed Allie Paris from Counteract USA in Northwest Arkansas about the pro-life effort in her part of the state. You can watch their conversation below.
Family Council also offers special email and text alerts about the abortion amendment. You can sign up for free here.
You can download a copy of the abortion amendment here.
Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.
Arkansas Right to Life Launches “Decline to Sign” Campaign Against Abortion Amendment
Arkansas Right to Life has launched a “Decline to Sign” campaign against the proposed Arkansas Abortion Amendment of 2024.
The amendment would write abortion into the Arkansas Constitution and legalize an estimated 3,000 abortions in Arkansas every year.
Supporters of the amendment have until July 5 to collect 90,704 valid petition signatures to place the measure on the ballot.
Arkansas Right to Life is urging voters to politely decline if asked to sign the petition.
In a statement on its website, Arkansas Right to Life writes,
The Arkansas Abortion Amendment would enshrine abortion in Arkansas’ Constitution and gut Amendment 68 which says it’s the policy of the state of Arkansas to protect unborn babies from conception until birth.
Besides that, it could wipe out all Arkansas laws that protect women ensure clinic inspections, licensing, and safety when it comes to abortion, and prevent parents from knowing about or being involved in their minor child’s secret abortion. There could be no law protecting unborn babies capable of feeling pain from being tortured to death by dismemberment or dying from neglect if they survived an abortion.
We urgently request your help by joining the DECLINE TO SIGN campaign! We are unwavering in our commitment to fight against this deceitful abortion amendment and will utilize every pro-life resource to ensure its defeat, but we need your help!
Arkansas Right to Life also offers free materials voters can use as they decline to sign the petition.