Pro-Life Bill Offers Women Information About Perinatal Hospice

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Today Rep. Clint Penzo (R – Springdale) and Sen. Kim Hammer (R – Benton) filed H.B. 1453, the Perinatal Hospice Information Act.

This good bill supplements Arkansas’ informed-consent laws for abortion by requiring abortionists to give women information about perinatal hospice.

Modern medicine has made it easier and easier to test unborn children for deadly fetal abnormalities that may cause the child to die during pregnancy or shortly after birth. Some studies indicate that most children who test positive for these abnormalities are aborted.

H.B. 1453 requires abortion doctors to inform women about perinatal hospice services available in Arkansas and nationally.

Perinatal hospice is available when an unborn child is not expected to survive long after birth. The hospice can provide services like emotional support and counseling for the mother; it also can help maximize the child’s quality of life following birth.

Currently there are at least three perinatal hospice programs in Arkansas.

By requiring abortionists to provide women with information about perinatal hospice, H.B. 1453 helps women choose options besides abortion.

You can call your state representative in support of H.B. 1453 at (501) 682-6211.

You can read H.B. 1453 here.

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Arkansas Lottery Puts up Dismal January Numbers

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Last Friday the Arkansas released its financial report for the month of January 2019.

The report shows the Arkansas Lottery grossed nearly $40.6 million last month, but paid just $7.8 million to college scholarships — about 19 cents out of every dollar the lottery made.

In the last seven months the Arkansas Lottery has given about 17% of its revenue to scholarships — less than half the percentage our neighbors to the south in Louisiana allocate for education.

After ten years of failed promises to change and improve, the Arkansas Lottery continues to fail to make scholarship funding a serious priority.

Below is a breakdown of Lottery revenue so far this fiscal year.

Month Gross Lottery RevenuePaid to Scholarships % Gross Revenue
July $ 42,413,352.70 $ 5,066,628.73 11.9%
August 40,343,279.62 6,175,998.40 15.3%
September 35,198,809.72 7,783,450.82 22.1%
October 57,575,285.62 11,259,040.31 19.6%
November 37,700,016.00 6,821,411.01 18.1%
December 45,859,642.73 6,650,791.54 14.5%
January, 2019 40,574,813.28 7,848,495.62 19.3%
Total $ 299,665,199.67 $ 51,605,816.43 17.2%

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