Posted on 01/24/2024 8:20:57 AM PST by Morgana
Radical abortion advocates in Arkansas are now approved to collect signatures for an extreme amendment that would legalize killing babies in abortions.
The measure would also overturn virtually every pro-life law in the state that protects babies from abortions – including the state’s abortion ban protecting unborn children and laws designed to protect the health and safety of women.
On Tuesday the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office certified a popular name and ballot title for the Arkansas Abortion Amendment of 2024. The measure’s sponsors now can begin collecting the 90,704 petition signatures necessary to place the measure on the ballot this November.
Family Council President Jerry Cox released a statement, saying, “This is a radical amendment legalizing abortion in a way Arkansas has never seen before. It writes abortion into the Arkansas Constitution. It erases virtually all of Arkansas’ pro-life laws, and it allows abortion on demand without restriction through the first eighteen weeks of pregnancy. As many as three thousand unborn children could be aborted in Arkansas each year because of this amendment, and the State of Arkansas would be powerless to prevent it.”
Cox said the amendment prevents Arkansas’ lawmakers from enacting basic abortion laws.
He told LfieNews: “Under this amendment, lawmakers and voters would lose the ability to enact even basic abortion regulations. The measure says abortion cannot be restricted at all during the first eighteen weeks after fertilization. That means abortionists won’t be required to have parental consent before performing an abortion on an underage girl. Abortionists won’t be required to explain the abortion procedure to the woman beforehand. These are requirements that people on both sides of the aisle have supported in the past, but this amendment would prevent them.”
Cox said the amendment also fails to address basic health and safety standards for abortion, which can put women’s lives at risk.
He said: “Nothing in this amendment requires abortionists to be licensed to practice medicine in Arkansas. It doesn’t require abortionists to follow basic health and safety standards. It doesn’t ensure that abortion facilities will be licensed or inspected. Courts could use it to require the State of Arkansas to pay for abortions with taxpayer funds. These are serious flaws with the amendment.”
Cox said the amendment likely would result in thousands of unborn children aborted every year, if passed.
“Prior to the 2022 Dobbs decision, there were upwards of three thousand or more elective abortions performed in Arkansas each year during the first eighteen weeks of pregnancy. If this amendment passes, we estimate that at least that many unborn children would be aborted each year. For those thousands of children, this amendment literally is a matter of life and death. That’s the most serious problem with this measure,” he concluded.
Why stop at eighteen weeks?
For that matter, why stop at birth?
Please! Don’t give them ideas!!!
They did this last year in Ohio because when Ohio wrote it’s state constitution, they thought it was a good idea to be able to amend the state constitution with a majority vote (1 vote more for Yes than No).
Sadly, The abortion war is lost. Too many women and men view the preborn child as the “product of conception” and like any product, ownership and total rights over said product belong to the possessor. Even stockyard cattle enjoy more protection against ill treatment.
For too many people sex is only about pleasure and being able to either prevent or remove the natural consequence of sex is essential to their personal liberty.
It must be remembered too that keeping women in the workforce is seen as too important to some businesses’ bottom line and encouraging abortion is part of their policy.
In less than a decade we will see infanticide accepted if not fully legal.
They just tried this in Alabama. Apparently, they are trying to push this through in Red States that presently ban abortion.
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