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Arkansas Attorney General Blocks Another Attempt to Legalize Abortions Up to Birth
Life News ^ | January 5, 2024 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 01/06/2024 12:07:30 AM PST by Morgana

Republican Attorney General Tim Griffin has denied a second attempt to put a radical amendment on the ballot that would allow abortions up to birth.

Last year, Griffin rejected a first attempt to legalize abortions up to birth in the Natural State known by the popular name of “The Arkansas Reproductive Healthcare Amendment.” It was shepherded by “Arkansas For Limited Government,” a pro-abortion group explicitly formed to put the measure on the ballot, similar to the group that was behind Ohio’s successful Issue 1 amendment.

Now, Griffin has rejected as second amendment — saying it needs further revisions before it can appear on the 2024 statewide ballot.

The initial proposal said state government entities would not be allowed to “prohibit, penalize, delay or restrict” Arkansans’ access to abortion “within 18 weeks of conception” although it would still have the practical effect of allowing abortions up to birth because of loopholes. The revised version replaced the word “conception” with “fertilization” and included a definition of the term, in response to one of Griffin’s concerns about the previous version.

That was still not good enough.

The second draft also specified the health exception to cover only physical health, since Griffin said the first draft’s exception was too vague. The updated exception defined “physical health” as “a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury… caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, or when continuation of the pregnancy will create a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function.”

Griffin said in Thursday’s opinion that the definition was potentially misleading.

“It defines ‘physical health,’ not as the absence of disorder, illness, or injury, but as the presence of those things,” Griffin wrote. “That is the opposite of the common meaning of ‘health.’… I suspect you intended something like this: to permit ‘abortion services’ when, among other things, they ‘are needed to protect the pregnant female from a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury.’”

Now the abortion advocates will submit a third proposal. if accepted, backers would need to obtain over 90,000 signatures to get it on the ballot.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: abortion; arkansas; prolife
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1 posted on 01/06/2024 12:07:30 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Stay strong…
And thank you, you’re doing God’s work.


2 posted on 01/06/2024 12:10:57 AM PST by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: Morgana
Doesn't the Constitution say something about "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"?
3 posted on 01/06/2024 7:05:25 AM PST by BipolarBob (My investment choice for 2024 is pre-ban menthol cigarettes. )
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To: Morgana
(that would allow abortions up to birth.)

It's hard to believe that there are actually people who would support that. But there definitely are. So.... one more time for today

They have made a covenant with death 💀💀💀

and with Hell are they at agreement


4 posted on 01/06/2024 9:11:29 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Thapsus_epiphany

Putting it quite simply, I might think it allowable for the sAfety of the mother ONLY, but generally put I believe that taking the life of another human, especially a helpless one, is murder.


5 posted on 01/06/2024 3:40:34 PM PST by oldtech
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To: BipolarBob
Doesn't the Constitution say something about "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"?

Nope. That would be the Declaration of Independence.


But there's lots of stuff in there (Constitution) that we hold off on / deny anyway. Nothing in there says the 2nd Amendment only applies after you turn 18 or 21 depending on construction of the object. It took a Constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, yet somehow FedGov can ban (or set age limits on) various plants and herbs for inconsistent reasons, without an amendment?

So why not say the right to life doesn't start until you turn a certain age?


/s on that last line (for those that need it)
6 posted on 01/07/2024 8:08:42 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: oldtech
Putting it quite simply, I might think it allowable for the sAfety of the mother ONLY, but generally put I believe that taking the life of another human, especially a helpless one, is murder.

The problem with that argument is that there is almost no condition that threatens the life of the mother that would necessitate the killing of her kid. Almost every such condition is treatable with today's medicine, and it will almost never get dangerous enough in early pregnancy. And once the situation is potentially life-threatening, the baby is developed enough to be viable, albeit with NICU/assistance.

Of course, I've seen several arguments regarding ectopic 'pregnancies', but those aren't true pregnancies and the baby has zero chance of survival, and current medical capability has no way to remove the fetus and place it into the uterus.
7 posted on 01/07/2024 8:38:46 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Morgana

I’m so sick of the lie that abortion is somehow Healthcare.


8 posted on 01/07/2024 4:24:07 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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