Arkansas Ranked Most Pro-Life State in America For Third Year In a Row

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Thursday, January 5, 2023

Little Rock, Ark. — On Thursday Americans United for Life announced that Arkansas is the most pro-life state in America for the third year in a row. The pro-life organization ranks all fifty states based on state laws protecting the unborn, the elderly, the disabled, and the terminally ill.

Family Council President Jerry Cox released a statement saying, “This is incredible news. Arkansas has the best laws in the nation when it comes to protecting innocent human life from conception until natural death. Arkansans should be proud of their state legislators for enacting such good laws. That’s something to celebrate.”

Cox said that keeping Arkansas the most pro-life state in America has taken a lot of work by many different people. “By working together, Arkansans have helped Arkansas remain the most pro-life state in the country. Arkansas Right to Life has been fighting abortion for over forty years, and Family Council has been at it for more than thirty years. Arkansas’ General Assembly has passed at least forty-seven good, pro-life laws since 2011. Ministers, churches, elected officials, pregnancy resource centers, and everyday Arkansans all have worked tirelessly to make Arkansas the pro-life state that it is today.”

Cox pointed out that Arkansas law generally prohibits abortion, and most Arkansans do not support abortion on demand. “It’s great to be the nation’s most pro-life state, but it’s even better that Arkansas has stopped aborting unborn children. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed Roe v. Wade, abortion is prohibited in Arkansas except to save the life of the mother. Even before that law went into effect, abortion in Arkansas had plummeted to historic lows. Public opinion polling has shown for years that Arkansans do not support abortion on demand, and more than forty pregnancy resource centers around the state help women and girls with unplanned pregnancies. Arkansas is a pro-life state, because Arkansans themselves are incredibly pro-life.”

Cox said even though Arkansas is the most pro-life state in the country, pro-life efforts are far from over. “Being pro-life is about much more than opposing abortion. It’s about protecting innocent human life at all stages from conception until natural death. We look forward to continuing to defend the sanctity of human life in Arkansas.”

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Groups Ask Federal Judge in Little Rock to Set Schedule for Trial Over Ten Commandments Monument

Ten Commandments Monument

On Tuesday, December 27, the groups who are suing to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the Arkansas Capitol Building grounds filed a motion with U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker asking her to set a briefing schedule for the lawsuit.

The motion notes that the lawsuit over the Ten Commandments monument has languished in Judge Baker’s court in Little Rock since 2018 and that she has not outlined a schedule for resolving the case.

This is at least the second time that Judge Baker has been asked to set a briefing schedule in the Ten Commandments lawsuit.

The Arkansas Legislature passed a measure in 2015 authorizing a privately-funded monument of the Ten Commandments on the State Capitol Building grounds.

The authorized monument is identical to one ruled constitutional at the capitol building in Texas.

Shortly after the monument was unveiled, atheist groups and the Satanic Temple joined a lawsuit to have it removed.

The case originally was set to go to trial in July of 2020, but the trial was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The lawsuit has remained in limbo ever since.

As we have said for years, there shouldn’t be anything controversial about a monument honoring the significance of the Ten Commandments.

Historians have long recognized the Ten Commandments as one of the earliest examples of the rule of law in human history, and they have helped shape the laws in countries around the world.

Arkansas’ monument simply honors that legacy.

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