More than 200 U.S. Senators and Congressmen — including the entire congressional delegation from Arkansas — have filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider and overrule its Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.
Watch this video below to learn more.
Last week a group of 20 attorneys general filed an amicus brief with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals as part of an effort to block three pro-life laws in Arkansas.
Last June abortionists sued the State of Arkansas over three new pro-life laws passed in 2019:
A lower court in Little Rock initially blocked the laws.
However, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has asked the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to let Arkansas enforce these good laws.
On January 7 a coalition of state attorneys general filed an amicus brief with the Eighth Circuit arguing that Act 493 and Act 619 are unconstitutional and should be struck down.
The amicus brief includes the Attorneys General of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.
It’s worth noting that with the exception of Minnesota, none of these states are actually from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In 2018 many of these same states tried to convince the federal courts to block other pro-life laws in Arkansas.
The amicus brief filed last week claims the State of Arkansas does not have the authority to prohibit abortion after the eighteenth week of pregnancy and that lawmakers cannot protect an unborn child from being aborted simply because he or she might have Down Syndrome.
Interestingly, the amicus brief does not say a word about Act 700 requiring abortionists to be board certified or board eligible OB/GYNs.
Apparently even these attorneys couldn’t come up with a reason why anyone besides an OB/GYN should be able to perform abortions.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: 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 won some major victories in the Eighth Circuit in past years, and I believe there will be other pro-life victories in 2020
Perhaps that’s why abortion advocates are so desperate to block pro-life laws here in Arkansas.
Photo Credit: By Brian Turner (Flickr: My Trusty Gavel) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
This Sunday, January 19, the 42nd annual Arkansas March for Life will take place in downtown Little Rock.
The march will begin at 1:30 p.m., between Battery and Wolfe streets on West Capitol Ave., on the west side of the State Capitol Building, and it will lead to the front steps of the Capitol.
The Arkansas March for Life is an excellent opportunity for pro-life Arkansans to demonstrate their opposition to abortion.
For more information on the Arkansas March for Life, go to https://www.artl.org.
If you would like to see a photo of pro-lifers trudging uphill through the snow in the 1995 Arkansas March for Life, be sure to check out our January update letter here.
