NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, January 18, 2013
Family Council President Jerry Cox released a statement Friday celebrating the announcement Americans United for Life ranked Arkansas the fourth most pro-life state in the nation. This is up from fifth place in 2012.
“I’m proud to be an Arkansan for a lot of reasons,” Cox said. “This is just one more.”
Rep. Andy Mayberry (R-Hensley) has filed the first pro-life bill of the session.
H.B. 1037, also known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibits abortion once an unborn child is capable of feeling pain—roughly twenty weeks into a pregnancy—except to save the life of the mother or prevent “substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”
The bill has more than fifty sponsors in the House of Representatives, meaning if it makes it out of the House Public Health Committee, it is bound to pass the entire House.
Courts in Europe have ruled that individual European countries must decide for themselves whether they will or will not permit euthanasia.