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No-Fault Divorce Legislation Filed

Mar 11, 2021Jerry CoxMarriageArkansas Legislature, Marriage

On Thursday Rep. Ashley Hudson (D – Little Rock), Rep. Andrew Collins (D – Little Rock), and Sen. Greg Leding (D – Fayetteville) filed H.B. 1697.

This is a bad bill permitting no-fault divorce in Arkansas.

Under current law, couples in Arkansas can divorces in cases such as infidelity, abuse, following a lengthy separation, and other circumstances.

H.B. 1697 would permit divorce due to irreconcilable differences, discord, or conflict of personalities regardless of if the husband or wife is at fault.

Arkansas already has a high divorce rate. We don’t need to pass laws making it even easier to get a divorce.

Instead of passing laws helping people end their marriages, what if we took steps to encourage couples to work through their differences? Wouldn’t policies like that do more to help families than no-fault divorce legislation?

Read The Bill Here.

Committee Passes Bill to Separate Abortionists From Medicaid

Mar 11, 2021Jerry Cox1 CommentAbortionAbortion, Arkansas Legislature, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

*Sen. Gary Stubblefield prepares to present H.B. 1408 in committee.*

On Wednesday afternoon the Senate Public Health Committee passed H.B. 1408 by Rep. Robin Lundstrum (R – Springdale) and Sen. Gary Stubblefield (R – Branch).

This good bill helps prevent abortion providers and their affiliates in Arkansas from receiving Medicaid reimbursements from the state.

In 2015 Governor Hutchinson ordered the state to quit providing Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood clinics after a series of undercover videos showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of organs and tissue harvested from aborted babies.

Following a lengthy lawsuit, a federal panel of judges ruled in 2017 that the state has the power to cut Medicaid funds to abortion providers.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading abortion provider. Nobody should have to subsidize abortion providers with their tax dollars.

H.B. 1408 helps address that in state law

The bill already has passed the Arkansas House of Representatives. It now goes to the entire Arkansas Senate for consideration.

Updated: Arkansas House Passes Bill to Protect Children From Gender Reassignment Procedures

Mar 10, 2021Jerry CoxLGBTLGBT

*Rep. Robin Lundstrum presents H.B. 1570 in the Arkansas House of Representatives.*

On Wednesday the Arkansas House of Representatives passed H.B. 1570, the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act.

This good bill by Rep. Robin Lundstrum (R – Springdale) and Sen. Alan Clark (R – Lonsdale) prohibits sex-reassignment procedures on children in Arkansas.

The bill also prevents funding of sex-reassignment procedures performed on children.

Gender-reassignment surgeries can leave children sterilized and scarred for life.

Medical researchers do not know the long term effects these procedures and therapies can have on kids. That is why many people equate them with experimenting on children.

H.B. 1570 passed the House Public Health Committee by a vote of 12 to 2 on Tuesday afternoon, and it passed the Arkansas House of Representatives by a vote of 70 to 22 on Wednesday afternoon.

The bill now goes to the Arkansas Senate for consideration.

Read H.B. 1570 Here.