Group Hires Additional Canvassers for Abortion Amendment Effort

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The group working to enshrine abortion into the Arkansas Constitution has hired more than 100 paid canvassers to collect signatures for its statewide petition drive, according to public documents obtained from the Secretary of State via the Freedom of Information Act.

Arkansans for Limited Government has until July 5 to collect 90,704 valid signatures from registered voters to place the Arkansas Abortion Amendment on the November ballot.

State law lets ballot question committees hire Arkansas residents as petition canvassers paid to collect signatures.

The list obtained via FOIA indicates Arkansans for Limited Government currently has 119 paid canvassers — most of whom appear to be concentrated in central and northwest Arkansas.

The paid canvasser list was first acquired by Family Council Action Committee is available at FamilyCouncilActionCommittee.com.

If passed, the Arkansas Abortion Amendment would write abortion into the state constitution, allowing thousands of elective abortions in Arkansas every year.

The amendment does not contain any medical licensing or health and safety standards for abortion.

The measure prevents the Arkansas Legislature from restricting abortion during the first five months of pregnancy, and it automatically nullifies all state laws that conflict with the amendment. That jeopardizes even the most basic health and safety restrictions on abortion.

The amendment’s health exceptions would permit abortion through all nine months of pregnancy in many cases.

It also would pave the way for publicly funded abortion in Arkansas by changing Amendment 68 to the Arkansas Constitution that currently prohibits taxpayer funded abortion in the state.

To date, multiple organizations have come out against the amendment, including:

  • Arkansas Right to Life
  • Family Council Action Committee
  • Choose Life Arkansas
  • NWA Coalition for Life
  • The Arkansas Committee For Ethics Policy
  • The Catholic Diocese of Little Rock
  • Saline Decline to Sign
  • Stronger Arkansas
  • Stop Abortion On Demand
  • Students for Life of America

You can download a copy of the abortion amendment here.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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Group Releases Video Calling Late Term Abortion a “Made Up” Idea

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On Monday the group Arkansans for Limited Government posted a YouTube video titled “Why late term abortions aren’t a thing.”

The video’s purpose is to “talk about some of the lies that are being spread about the Arkansas Abortion Amendment.”

The only “lie” the video discusses is whether or not late term abortions actually occur, alleging that “late term abortion” is “a made up term.”

You can watch the video below.

Arkansans for Limited Government is circulating petitions to place the Arkansas Abortion Amendment on the ballot this November.

If passed, the Arkansas Abortion Amendment would allow thousands of elective abortions in Arkansas every year.

The amendment does not contain any medical licensing or health and safety standards for abortion.

It includes sweeping health exceptions that would permit abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy in many cases.

The measure would prevent the Arkansas Legislature from restricting abortion during the first five months of pregnancy.

The amendment also would pave the way for publicly funded abortion in Arkansas by writing abortion into the constitution and changing Amendment 68 that currently prohibits taxpayer funded abortion in the state.

Family Council has produced an educational video explaining what the abortion amendment would mean for Arkansas, if passed. You can watch it below.

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