Pro-Abortion Group Continues Legal Effort Against Arkansas’ Pro-Life Laws

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A pro-abortion group has requested a hearing in its lawsuit against Arkansas’ pro-life laws.

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and since then Arkansas law has prohibited abortion except to save the life of the mother. Last year the state legislature took excellent steps to strengthen and clarify Arkansas’ pro-life laws.

But in January, attorneys with a pro-abortion group filed a lawsuit in Pulaski County to strike down Arkansas’ good, pro-life laws. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin told media outlets at the time that the lawsuit on its face appears to have little legal merit. Family Council agrees with the attorney general.

The attorney general’s office has asked the court to dismiss the case. In response, attorneys representing the pro-abortion group filed a brief making the bizarre argument that Arkansas’ pro-life laws violate the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under the Arkansas Constitution, and they have asked the judge to schedule a hearing in the case.

Arkansas has been named the most pro-life state in America for the past six years, and lawmakers have enacted excellent legislation protecting women and unborn children from abortion and supporting women with unplanned pregnancies. This lawsuit threatens to undo all of those good laws.

Public opinion polling has shown time and again that most Arkansans are pro-life and oppose abortion on demand.

Arkansas’ pro-life laws reflect Arkansans’ pro-life views. These laws protect everyone’s right to life — including the unborn child’s.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states like Arkansas are free to enact laws restricting or prohibiting abortion. We are confident our courts ultimately will uphold Arkansas’ pro-life laws against this legal challenge.

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

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DOJ Report Confirms Biden Administration Weaponized Federal Law Against Pro-Lifers

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Above: Arsonists firebombed the Wisconsin Family Action office in Madison on Mother’s Day 2022. The pro-abortion domestic terror group Jane’s Revenge later took credit for the attack. Last week’s DOJ report shows attacks like these were ignored or downplayed while the federal government weaponized its resources against pro-lifers.

The U.S. Department of Justice released a report last week confirming what many pro-life Americans have suspected for years: the Biden Administration used the power of the federal government to target and punish people for their pro-life beliefs.

The report produced by the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group reviewed more than 700,000 internal records. What it found is deeply troubling.

The Biden DOJ worked hand-in-hand with pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation to track pro-life activists, build dossiers on them, and push for their prosecution. Prosecutors withheld evidence from defendants, tried to screen religious people off juries, and pushed for sentences averaging more than two years in prison for pro-life defendants — more than twice the average sentence sought for violent pro-abortion offenders.

Meanwhile, attacks against pregnancy resource centers were ignored or downplayed.

President Trump issued pardons to many of the pro-lifers targeted by the Biden DOJ, and the current DOJ has dismissed several of those cases. That is the right call.

Arkansas families and churches should know that standing up for innocent human life is never wrong. We are grateful the record is finally being set straight.

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

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