Judge Price Marshall found Arkansas lacked standing to bring the case, the second time in a month Attory General Tim Griffin has had a case dismissed for lack of standing.
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Anti-abortion groups target pro-choice ballot measures nationwide, including in Arkansas
In Arkansas and elsewhere, anti-abortion activists have concluded that it’s best not to give the people a vote.
Doxed and scared, a canvasser for abortion, MMJ rights stays the course
Signature gathering isn’t letting up to put issues before the voters, despite a jab from opponents who published paid canvassers’ names and home cities. Can the Family Council really claim that its mission is protecting Arkansas families when it endangered so many of them in one fell swoop?
Commission recommends space for Arkansas Capitol’s upcoming ‘monument to the unborn’
Lakey Goff, the artist behind the idea of a “living wall” of flora for the monument, proposed placing the monument in the grassy space behind the Capitol and to the north of the Supreme Court building.
Plans for pro-adoption, anti-abortion lesson in public schools fizzle in confusion this year
After sending an out-of-the-blue letter about a new mandate with weeks left in the school year, the state evidently removed the curriculum materials from its website. So did anyone actually follow this law?
White Water Tavern to host petition-signing event this Saturday
The event comes barely a week after Little Rock Police, allegedly at the governor’s direction, threatened to arrest signature gatherers outside an MLK Commission event.
Big if true: Pro-lifers claim no abortions in Arkansas in 2023
An Arkansas Department of Health report tallies zero abortions in the state for all of 2023. We have questions.
Attorney general threatens groups advertising abortion pills in Arkansas
Griffin focuses not on the shipping itself but the marketing of the pills, which he says potentially violate the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
Jason Isbell plugs Arkansas abortion amendment at Bentonville show
“This near-total abortion ban is a very bad and a very dangerous thing. It puts a lot of people at risk. And if you agree with me, you can go sign up to get on the ballot in November to repeal the ban,” Isbell said between songs to a very receptive audience.
Public schools must teach pro-adoption, anti-abortion lesson by end of school year, per new state law
A little-known law passed in 2023 requires public schools to teach “the reasons adoption is preferable to abortion” in grades 6-12.