Better than nothing but not good enough, national funders tell Arkansas reproductive rights advocates.
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With abortion access at stake, grassroots volunteers hatch strategy to collect signatures
The group Arkansans for Limited Government is hustling to raise money and recruit volunteers in their bid to put reproductive rights on the ballot.
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Recognize propaganda: about those anti-choice posters
How to recognize “macabre disinformation.”
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Central Arkansas gets its first chance to officially support the abortion amendment
A proposed amendment would align Arkansas’s abortion restrictions more closely with kinder, gentler states, permitting abortions within 18 weeks of fertilization or in cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal anomalies or “to protect a pregnant female’s life or to protect a pregnant female from a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury.”
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Arkansas abortion amendment can proceed, attorney general says
The group behind the proposal, Arkansans for Limited Government, must now collect over 90,000 signatures before July 5 to qualify for the November ballot.
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Dedicated defenders of FOI, reproductive rights, public education keep aiming for the ballot
A trifecta of do-gooder ballot proposals are still stalled at the Arkansas attorney general’s office.
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Griffin rejects abortion amendment again, cites one lingering issue
Arkansans for Limited Government said it would promptly submit a third draft.
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Reproductive rights advocates file a second draft with the AG to put abortion access on the ballot
A group aiming to make Arkansas’s draconian abortion ban slightly less brutal submitted a proposed constitutional amendment with the state attorney general’s office Monday, after their first attempt was denied.
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First try at putting abortion rights on the Arkansas ballot stalls at AG’s office
First tries at ballot measures are routinely rejected for reasons of legalese. Griffin said his office is not to consider the political subject matter of a proposal, only whether it meets legal requirements.
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Group aims to restore limited abortion rights in Arkansas
A proposed new amendment would allow abortions up to 18 weeks after conception, and in cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal anomaly or to protect the health of the mother.