Video: Bill Would Require Doctors to Report Botched Abortions
S.B. 3 would require abortionists to report complications from abortion to the state.
Watch this video to learn more.
AR Senator Tom Cotton Co-Sponsors Bill to Permanently Ban Taxpayer Funding of Abortion
This week Arkansas’ U.S. Senator Tom Cotton joined 34 other members of the United States Senate in co-sponsoring a measure that would permanently ban taxpayer funding of abortion in America.
The proposed bill, S. 109, says:
No funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are authorized or appropriated by Federal law, shall be expended for any abortion.
The measure contains exceptions for rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother.
It also requires Obamacare insurers to disclose whether or not a health insurance plan pays for abortion.
As we have written before, the United States has some of the most lax laws of any country on earth when it comes to abortion, and the federal government has continued to pour taxpayer money into abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. S. 109 could finally help prevent taxpayers from being forced to subsidize abortion.
Proposal Would Make It Easier to Use Marijuana in Arkansas
Yesterday we shared a commentary from our friends at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview highlighting a New York Times op-ed about the growing public health threat posed by marijuana.
This week a bill was filed at the Arkansas Legislature making it easier for Arkansans to use marijuana under the state’s so-called “medical marijuana” amendment.
Currently, Amendment 98 to the Arkansas Constitution lets Arkansans use marijuana if they have any one of a long list of qualifying conditions.
H.B. 1150 by Rep. Doug House (R – North Little Rock) expands the list of qualifying conditions to add the following:
- adiposis dolorosa or Dercum’s Disease
- anorexia
- Arnold-Chiari malformation,
- asthma,
- attention deficit disorder,
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- autism
- bipolar disorder
- bulimia
- causalgia
- chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
- chronic insomnia
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- complex regional pain syndrome Type I and Type II
- dystonia
- emphysema
- fibrous dysplasia
- general anxiety disorder
- hydrocephalus
- hydromyelia
- interstitial cystitis
- lupus
- migraine
- myasthenia gravis
- myoclonus
- nail-patella syndrome
- neurofibromatosis
- Parkinson’s Disease
- posterior lateral sclerosis
- post concussion syndrome
- reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- residual limb and phantom pain
- restless leg syndrome,
- Sjogren’s syndrome,
- spinocerebellar ataxia
- spinal cord injury or disease including without limitation arachnoiditis
- syringomyelia
- Tarlov cysts
- traumatic brain injury
If passed, H.B. 1150 would let people with COPD or emphysema smoke marijuana.
It would let parents give marijuana to their child if the child tests positive for ADD or ADHD.
It would let people with traumatic brain injuries use marijuana.
Of course, research does not show that marijuana is effective treating these conditions. However, research has shown that marijuana smoke contains more tar and carcinogens than tobacco, and marijuana-use is linked to a host of mental problems, including permanent loss in IQ and increased risk of schizophrenia.
In other words, it probably isn’t a good idea to let people with lung disease smoke marijuana, and it probably isn’t a good idea to give marijuana to people with learning disabilities or brain injuries.
Arkansas’ marijuana amendment already makes it very easy for people to use marijuana, but H.B. 1150 arguably makes it even easier.
You can contact your state representative about H.B. 1150 by calling the Arkansas House of Representatives at (501) 682-6211.