Arkansas House Democrats Promote Bad Legislation As Part of 2025 Agenda

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The Arkansas Democratic House Caucus is promoting a slate of bad legislation as part of its “2025 Better Arkansas Agenda.”

The caucus is made up of Democratic legislators serving in the Arkansas House of Representatives. On Tuesday the caucus held a press conference unveiling its legislative package for next year. The caucus also posted a statement on social media promoting three bad bills that violate the sanctity and dignity of human life — H.B. 1011, H.B. 1013, and H.B. 1014.

H.B. 1011 — the “Restore Roe Act” by Rep. Andrew Collins (D — Little Rock) — is a bad bill that would repeal Arkansas’ pro-life laws and legalize abortion throughout the state.

H.B. 1013 by Rep. Collins is a bad bill that would let fertility clinics in Arkansas create and kill human embryos as part of unethical in vitro fertilization — or IVF — practices, and H.B. 1014 by Rep. Collins would require the State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Program to pay for these IVF practices.

IVF labs in America often operate almost as if human embryos were a factory product that lab workers can create, implant, freeze, or kill at will. But people aren’t products. There are ethical fertility treatments out there — including ethical approaches to IVF — but H.B. 1013 and H.B. 1014 fail to distinguish ethical fertility treatments from from unethical ones.

Unethical IVF will not improve maternal health in Arkansas. And abortion hurts women and takes the lives of unborn children. Laws like these simply will not make Arkansas “better” in 2025.

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Bad Legislation Would Protect Creation and Destruction of Human Embryos in Arkansas

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Legislation has been filed in Arkansas guaranteeing that people have a “right” to create and kill human embryos.

H.B. 1013 by Rep. Andrew Collins (D — Little Rock) governs fertility treatments in Arkansas. The bill says every individual has a “right” to receive fertility treatments from healthcare providers — including a right to sign contracts with providers concerning the way the provider handle, test, store, ship, and dispose of “the individual’s reproductive genetic material.”

The bill makes it clear that “reproductive genetic material” includes fertilized eggs and embryos.

Lawmakers will have the opportunity to discuss H.B. 1013 and other measures when they convene for their next legislative session in Little Rock on January 13.

H.B. 1013 would protect unethical practices that violate the sanctity of human life in Arkansas.

Unethical fertility clinics have come under fire for creating and killing surplus human embryos, allowing them to be used for medical experimentation, or leaving them in cold storage indefinitely.

Being pro-life means believing that human life is sacred from conception until natural death.

Human embryos are human beings — and human beings are not products that can be created and destroyed at will.

H.B. 1013 would give people and medical facilities the “right” to violate the sanctity and dignity of human life.

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Bill Filed to Repeal Pro-Life Laws, Legalize Abortion in Arkansas

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On Wednesday Rep. Andrew Collins (D — Little Rock) filed a bill repealing virtually all of Arkansas’ pro-life laws and legalizing abortion in the state.

State law currently prohibits abortion except to save the life of the mother. The law also contains clear exceptions for ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage treatment, and other situations.

Prior to the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, Arkansas had enacted more than 50 laws restricting or prohibiting abortion — including laws concerning parental-consent and informed-consent for abortion, and laws preventing public funds from going to abortionists or their affiliates.

H.B. 1011 — the “Restore Roe Act” by Rep. Collins — is a bad bill that would repeal Arkansas’ pro-life laws and legalize abortion throughout the state.

The measure is nearly 128 pages long. It not only legalizes abortion in Arkansas, but it also strikes virtually all of the good, pro-life laws that Arkansas passed prior to 2022.

Arkansans do not support elective abortion. Time and again, public opinion polling has shown Arkansas voters believe abortion ought to be either completely illegal or limited to certain circumstances. Arkansas’ current laws reflect that.

H.B. 1011 would erase nearly four decades of good laws that protect women and unborn children from abortion. Family Council has worked for 35 years to promote and protect the sanctity and dignity of innocent human life, and we remain firmly committed to stopping abortion in Arkansas.

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