Abortion in Arkansas is following a downward trend, based on numbers obtained from the Arkansas Department of Health’s office of Vital Records/Statistics. What’s more, 2012 was the lowest year for abortions in Arkansas since 1977.
Last May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declared an Arizona law banning non-emergency abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy unconstitutional.
The court stated the law violates legal precedent barring the state from prohibiting abortion prior to viability. Many constitutional law experts do not believe the issue is as cut-and-dry as the Ninth Circuit made it out to be, and the ruling has now been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland which serves Iowa, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma has announced plans to expand “reproductive Health Services” via telemedicine at satellite Planned Parenthood centers around the state of Iowa.
“Telemedicine” is a relatively new concept in the field of medicine. It refers to medical checkups and procedures–including dispensing abortion-inducing drugs–carried out with a doctor via video conference rather than in person. A number of people colloquially refer to this as “webcam abortion.”