Bill Filed to Prohibit Fraudulent Fertility Treatment

Bioethics, Legislation, Legislature,

On Thursday Sen. Charles Beckham (R – McNeil) and Rep. Jimmy Gazaway (R – Paragould) filed S.B. 474.

This good bill prohibits fraud and abuse in fertility treatments.

Right now Arkansas law contains very few provisions to prevent someone from conducting fertility treatments that are fraudulent or abusive.

S.B. 474 changes that by making it a crime for a person or healthcare provider to use unauthorized human reproductive material in a fertility treatment. This prevents reproductive material from another person from being used without appropriate consent.

The bill also makes it a crime for individuals who perform fertility treatments to misrepresent the identity of the person who has donated the reproductive material for the treatment or to misrepresent the quality of the material or the treatment procedure.

This helps address situations in which a person or company who does fertility treatments lies about the donor or secretly uses material or treatment procedures that probably will not work.

S.B. 474 also makes it possible for a person who engages in fraudulent fertility treatments to be sued.

This bill will make much-needed improvements to Arkansas’ laws governing fertility treatments and protect Arkansans from fraudulent or abusive conduct.

Read The Bill Here.

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Senate Committee to Consider Bill to Protect Fairness in Women’s Sports in Arkansas

Legislature, LGBT,

On Monday afternoon the Senate Education Committee will consider S.B. 354 by Sen. Missy Irvin (R – Mountain View) and Rep. Sonia Barker (R – Smackover).

This good bill would prevent boys from competing against girls in female athletics in Arkansas.

In recent years we’ve seen biological males participate unfairly in women’s sports.

In 2019 a biological male who claims to be female won the female Cycling World Championship.

In other cases biological males have dominated at girls’ track and field.

S.B. 354 would prevent biological males who claim to be girls from competing in girls’ sports at school in Arkansas.

Letting males compete in girls’ sports destroys girls’ athletic programs. It hampers girls’ abilities to qualify for athletic scholarships, and it hurts their professional opportunities.

S.B. 354 would protect fairness in women’s sports at school and prevent these sorts of problems from happening in Arkansas.

You can read S.B. 354 here.

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Arkansas House Public Health Committee Passes Bill to Prohibit Abortion

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On Tuesday the Arkansas House Public Health Committee passed S.B. 6 by Sen. Jason Rapert (R – Conway) and Rep. Mary Bentley (R – Perryville) prohibiting abortion in Arkansas.

The bill contains exceptions for medical emergencies in which the mother’s life is at stake.

This is a good bill that Family Council strongly supports.

If enacted, S.B. 6 would save thousands of unborn children every year and give the federal court system an opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade and other pro-abortion decisions.

This is an opportunity for Arkansas to be a real leader in the effort to end abortion in America.

Many people have been saying for almost fifty years that abortion should be illegal. The time has come for us to make it so.

S.B. 6 now goes to the entire Arkansas House of Representatives.

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