On January 13, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether states can protect fairness in women’s sports.
To date, 27 states — including Arkansas — have passed laws to protect the integrity of women’s sports. But males who identify as female are challenging some of these laws, including laws in West Virginia and Idaho.
The Idaho and West Virginia cases are now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Family Council joined dozens of state policy organizations and more than 200 state legislators in a legal brief in the case last September.
Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom are heavily involved in standing up for fairness in women’s sports, and they recently published a video highlighting some of the girls who have been harmed by school policies letting boys compete in girls’ sports. You can watch that video above or on YouTube.
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In its press coverage of the march, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette quoted a representative from the Arkansas Abortion Support Network who said, “I would love to see the same number of people and churches come out to stand for the lives of the children we already have here in Arkansas. … I would love to see that same energy directed toward lowering our state’s maternal mortality rate and addressing the infant mortality rates that have been rising since abortion was fully banned in Arkansas.”
The truth is, contrary to what many people claim, pro-lifers — and Christians as a whole — are among those who are most likely to support women and children, and they tend to be more charitable than the general population.
In fact, researchers have written about this topic for many years.
A recent report from our friends at the Charlotte Lozier Institute shows pro-life pregnancy resource centers provided hundreds of millions of dollars in goods and services to families in 2024. Many of these charities offer everything from pregnancy tests and ultrasounds to adoption referrals and parenting classes to maternity clothes, diapers, and baby formula — all typically free of charge.
Barna Research has also found that practicing Christians are more than twice as likely as the general population to adopt children. Barna writes, “Catholics are three times as likely. And evangelicals are five times as likely to adopt as the average adult.” Barna has also found Christians are more likely to welcome sibling groups, older youth, and children with special needs.
A 2022 survey by LifeWay Research found 44% of Protestant churchgoers say their congregation and its leaders are proactively involved with adoption and foster care.
On a much broader level, Pew Research has found that religious Americans are more likely to support charity and give to the poor, writing:
Among people who pray daily and attend services weekly, 45% also say they volunteered in the past week (including 23% who did so mainly through a church or other religious organization). Just 28% of Americans who are not highly religious say they volunteered in the past seven days. The gap is even bigger when it comes to helping the poor: 65% of the highly religious say they donated money, time or goods to help the poor in the past week, compared with 41% of all other U.S. adults.
Studies show churches, charities, religious colleges and universities, and people of faith as a whole may provide as much as $1.2 trillion worth of value to the American public.
Christians and churches support women with unplanned pregnancies, and they provide families for children in need of adoption and foster care. They always have. That is something to celebrate.
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Act 310 of 2023 by Sen. Kim Hammer (R – Benton) and Rep. Mary Bentley (R – Perryville) authorizes a privately funded pro-life monument on the Arkansas Capitol Grounds.
The Secretary of State and the Arts and Grounds Commission, which is responsible for the property around the Capitol, previously approved a monument proposal, but reportedly chose not to move forward with construction after the monument’s artist filed to copyright the design.
In a letter, Sen. Hammer told Secretary of State Jester, the copyrighted design would present challenges if the state needed to modify the monument in the future.
“It was never my intent for the monument to be anything other than under the full control of the state once built,” Sen. Hammer said, “and, in my opinion, a copyright could severely limit future modification.”
In a statement, Secretary of State Jester said, “We stand committed to moving this important project forward. It will provide a place of prayer at the Arkansas State Capitol to honor the unborn children of Arkansas and their families.”
Once it is complete, the monument will commemorate the 236,243 unborn children whose lives were lost to abortion from 1973 – 2022.
Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, and abortion is prohibited in Arkansas except to save the life of the mother, it’s important to remember the dignity and humanity of all unborn children.
Act 310 does that by establishing this monument as “a constant reminder of our duty to protect the life of every innocent human person, no matter how young or old, or how helpless and vulnerable that person may be.”
This monument to the unborn is more than just a structure. It is a powerful testament to Arkansas’ resolve to honor and protect innocent human life at all stages of development, from conception until natural death.
Arkansas Right to Life was the lead pro-life proponent of Act 310. Family Council was proud to support their efforts.
Artists interested in submitting designs for Arkansas’ monument to the unborn may send submissions or proposals to arkansascagc@gmail.com by March 14, 2026.
Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.
