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As the National Day of Prayer approaches, Christian leaders are calling on believers to pray for our world.
As the National Day of Prayer approaches, Christian leaders are calling on believers to pray for our world.
Late last week attorneys for the ACLU and abortionists renewed their legal challenge against the State of Arkansas over surgical abortions amid COVID-19.
New directives from state health officials require that a patient get a negative COVID-19 test before having an elective surgical procedure — including an elective surgical abortion.
In a statement on Twitter, the ACLU even went so far as to say, “Forcing people to search for [coronavirus] tests that aren’t available or else continue an unwanted pregnancy is cruel and medically unnecessary.”
Here’s a recap of everything that has led up to this point:
Once again, it appears Arkansas’ abortionists don’t want to follow the same rules as everyone else.
As we have said before, Arkansas’ public health directive are very reasonable. They apply equally to all elective surgeries, including surgical abortions. But abortion facilities keep asking federal courts to make exceptions for them.
At a time when other doctors and facilities are abiding by state rules to help fight COVID-19, it’s very telling that abortionists still want special treatment.
The Eighth Circuit made it clear in their last ruling that it’s completely reasonable for the state to restrict surgical abortions at a time like this. In light of that fact, it seems likely that Arkansas will win this new legal challenge as well.
Since last July, the Arkansas Lottery has spent more than $151,000 reimbursing employees for their travel mileage, according to the Arkansas Transparency website.
That’s up about $8,000 since April 1 of this year.
We’ve written repeatedly about how the Arkansas Lottery reimburses its employees for travel across the state instead of using Department of Finance vehicles, which are cheaper.
When state employees use their personal vehicles for work-related travel, they can be reimbursed 42 cents for every mile they drive.
In light of that, it appears Arkansas Lottery employees have driven their personal vehicles nearly 360,000 miles on official, Lottery business since July 1, 2019.
It may seem odd to some people that Arkansas Lottery employees have continued to to receive reimbursements for travel mileage amid a statewide pandemic.
Spending six figures on mileage reimbursement is just another example of wasteful spending at the Arkansas Lottery.