Sec. of State John Thurston rejected the Arkansas Abortion Amendment based on a paperwork error, but women’s health advocates are not going away without a fight.
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Attorney general asks state Supreme Court to dismiss lawsuit over abortion amendment (UPDATED)
Attorney General Tim Griffin contends the abortion-rights group essentially failed to turn in a petition at all when they failed to include a signed statement about paid canvassers.
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Supreme Court upholds abortion pill access, but reproductive rights leaders say threats continue
The Federal Drug Administration’s authority to allow use of the abortion pill nationwide stands, and there’s nothing a pack of anti-abortion groups can do about it. At least, not today.
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Q&A with Allison Grigsby Sweatman, volunteer organizer for the Arkansas Abortion Amendment
The volunteer organizer talks about campaigning for a blue cause in a red state.
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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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Third baby lands in Benton Safe Haven Baby Box
This week’s surrendered newborn is reportedly the third left in the Benton box since it was installed in 2019.
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Screening of documentary ‘The Janes’ Saturday benefits Arkansas Abortion Support Network
If you don’t know what you’re doing Saturday afternoon and you have a few bucks to throw toward reproductive justice in our state, consider this HBO doc screening benefiting the increasingly difficult work that the Arkansas Abortion Support Network does to help pregnant people in Arkansas.
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How to get help: A quick start guide to resources in Pulaski County
If you or someone you know could use some help, here are a few resources to tap in Central Arkansas. We can’t promise it will be easy, or that this list is exhaustive, but it’s a start.
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Hillary and Chelsea Clinton hold summit on women’s equality at Clinton Presidential Center
Ideas about bodily autonomy and reproductive rights loomed large in the summit and in the museum exhibition on display at the Clinton Center, both named “Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes, Women’s Rights.”
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Little Rock Family Planning Clinic announces temporary closure
“It has been an honor and privilege to have been your health care provider, some of you for many years,” the message reads. “We are grateful for the opportunity to have served your medical needs.”