Posted on 12/15/2014 12:55:39 PM PST by Morgana
LITTLE ROCK — In its first regular session after passing one of the strictest abortion laws in the country, the Arkansas Legislature is expected to consider several more proposed restrictions on the procedure.
In 2013, the Legislature enacted a bill to ban most abortions at 12 weeks or later into a pregnancy, overriding a veto by Gov. Mike Beebe. The law’s fate is now in the hands of the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, which is considering the state’s appeal of a federal judge’s ruling that partially struck it down.
In the meantime, several state legislators say they will seek to impose other restrictions on abortions during the session that begins Jan. 12.
Sen. Gary Stubblefield, R-Branch, said he will bring back a bill he filed in 2013 that would prohibit a state agency from awarding a grant to an entity that provides abortions or abortion referrals, contracts with a person or entity that provides abortions or referrals or is an affiliate of a person or entity that provides abortions or referrals.
Stubblefield said the bill would stop the state from giving federal grant money to Planned Parenthood for education programs on sexually transmitted diseases. The money has not funded abortions, but abortion is one of the services Planned Parenthood provides.
“There was a number of other groups that applied for those grants, and every year they were given to Planned Parenthood,” Stubblefield said, adding that he believed the organization had used the money for purposes beyond education.
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PP’s idea of sex education is teaching 5th graders about fisting and anal sex.
Arkansas has an usually deep infestation of southern Dems. Spawn of Clinton ... Blache Lincoln, Mark Pryor . . . gone. And we STILL have to deal with their governor?
Before Obama is through, he will EO drive-thru abortions.
Obama wants wants “Post Birth Abortions”. He is strugling with how long after a baby is born do we have to abort the pregnancy. Is it 5 minutes or 2 years? I heard as long as the baby can’t talk, democrats would still consider killing of the child an abortion.
(There is “some” satire in that statement. I’ll leave it up to FReepers to figure it out)
The liberals love them some baby murder.
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