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.
Dobbs vs. Jackson
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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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A lesson in recognizing anti-abortion propaganda
Far right political propaganda only uses one thing: fear.
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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 AG throws abortion into defense of ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin says a state law that would ban gender-affirming medical care for minors isn’t about sex discrimination. But the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the decades-old Roe vs. Wade abortion ruling is relevant, he argues.