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Abortion Amendment Canvassers are Especially Targeting These 28 Counties

Jul 3, 2024Jerry Cox1 CommentAbortionAbortion, Abortion Amendment, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

The following is an email alert from Family Council Action Committee.

Canvassers for the abortion amendment are working intensely across the state in the final stages of their petition drive.

Arkansans for Limited Government has until Friday to collect 90,704 valid petition signatures to place the Arkansas Abortion Amendment on the ballot.

Family Council Action Committee believes there are canvassers collecting signatures in nearly every county around the state. But pro-abortion strike teams traveling around Arkansas seem particularly focused on these 28 counties:

Ashley
Benton
Boone
Bradley
Calhoun
Clay
Cleveland
Crawford
Crittenden
Cross
Dallas
Fulton
Grant
Izard
Little River
Perry
Pike
Pulaski
Prairie
Randolph
Scott
Sevier
Van Buren
Logan
Searcy
Washington
White
Yell

If you see petition canvassers collecting signatures on private property, such as store parking lots, notify the property owner immediately. Our team is aware of situations where petition canvassers have tried to collect signatures on private property without getting permission from the property owners first.

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has said petition canvassing should only be conducted with permission from the property owner.

Look for canvassers in your community, and ask others to be on the lookout too. Some counties have developed a network of pro-lifers who are watching for pro-abortion canvassers. As soon as they are spotted, they take action by calling the business or standing near the canvasser to urge people not to sign the petition.

Look for canvasser at your local Independence Day celebrations such as fireworks shows. Pro-abortion canvassers have a right to get signatures on public property. You and other pro-life individuals have a right to be right there as well, urging people not to sign the petition. You have a right to walk alongside them if they are getting signatures in a crowd of people.

Family Council Action Committee is among the many groups encouraging Arkansans to Decline to Sign the abortion petition. You can learn more at FamilyCouncilActionCommittee.com.

Abortion Amendment Campaign Spent $200K+ on Petition Effort Last Month

Jun 24, 2024Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Abortion Amendment, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

The group working to enshrine abortion into the Arkansas Constitution spent more then $200,000 on its campaign last month, according to reports filed with the Arkansas Ethics Commission.

The campaign received $11,688 in donations during that time. Most of the group’s expenses appeared to be focused on collecting signatures for the abortion amendment.

Arkansans for Limited Government has until July 5 to collect 90,704 valid signatures from registered voters to place the Arkansas Abortion Amendment on the November ballot.

The measure would write abortion into the state constitution, allowing thousands of elective abortions in Arkansas every year.

The amendment does not contain any medical licensing or health and safety standards for abortion, and it automatically nullifies all state laws that conflict with the amendment. That jeopardizes even the most basic restrictions on abortion.

The measure contains sweeping exceptions that would permit abortion through all nine months of pregnancy in many cases.

The amendment also would pave the way for publicly funded abortion in Arkansas by changing Amendment 68 to the Arkansas Constitution that currently prohibits taxpayer funded abortion in the state.

To date, multiple groups and organizations have come out against the abortion amendment, including:

The Arkansas House of Representatives
Arkansas Right to Life
Family Council Action Committee
Choose Life Arkansas
NWA Coalition for Life
The Arkansas Committee For Ethics Policy
The Catholic Diocese of Little Rock
Saline Decline to Sign
Stronger Arkansas
Stop Abortion On Demand
Students for Life of America

You can download a copy of the Arkansas Abortion Amendment here.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

Gallup Finds Pro-Abortion Voters Have Rallied Following Reversal of Roe v. Wade

Jun 24, 2024Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Abortion Amendment, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

As we mark the second anniversary of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, Gallup reports pro-abortion voters have rallied in America.

In an article published earlier this month, Gallup noted,

A record-high 32% of U.S. voters say they would only vote for a candidate for major office who shares their views on abortion. The importance of a candidate’s abortion stance to one’s vote is markedly higher among pro-choice voters than it was during the 2020 presidential election cycle, while pro-life voters’ intensity about voting on the abortion issue has waned. Also, voters’ greater intensity on the issue today compared with 2020 is explained mainly by Democrats, while Republicans and independents have shown little change.

Gallup notes that voters who support abortion are significantly more likely to say it’s important for future U.S. Supreme Court nominees share their views on abortion today than they were 20 years ago.

In other words, it seems there is simply greater intensity surrounding the abortion issue today than there was a few years ago — especially among voters who were already inclined to support abortion.

Given the deep divide over abortion right now, it is no surprise that abortion’s supporters are working to write it into the Arkansas Constitution.

Arkansans for Limited Government has until July 5 to collect 90,704 valid signatures from registered voters to place the Arkansas Abortion Amendment on the November ballot.

If passed, the Arkansas Abortion Amendment would write abortion into the state constitution, allowing thousands of elective abortions in Arkansas every year.

The amendment does not contain any medical licensing or health and safety standards for abortion.

The measure prevents the Arkansas Legislature from restricting abortion during the first five months of pregnancy, and it automatically nullifies all state laws that conflict with the amendment. That jeopardizes even the most basic health and safety restrictions on abortion.

The amendment’s health exceptions would permit abortion through all nine months of pregnancy in many cases.

It also would pave the way for publicly funded abortion in Arkansas by changing Amendment 68 to the Arkansas Constitution that currently prohibits taxpayer funded abortion in the state.

To date, multiple organizations have come out against the amendment, including: