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By the end of the 1800s, all states in the Union except Louisiana had therapeutic exceptions in their legislative bans on abortions. [4] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina and Oregon made reforms to their abortion laws, with most of these states providing more detailed medical guidance on when therapeutic abortions could be ...
Andrew DeMillo/AP. Organizers of an effort to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban said they have more than enough signatures to try to put their proposal before voters in November's election.
An Arkansas organization announced Friday it has collected more than enough signatures to place a measure on the ballot this year that would ensure abortion access up to 18 weeks in the state.
The U.S. Supreme Court removed the nationwide right to abortion with a 2022 ruling, which sparked a national push to have voters decide the matter state by state. An Arkansas law banning abortion took effect when the court issued its ruling. Arkansas’ current ban allows abortion only to protect the mother’s life in a medical emergency.
Arkansas law bans virtually all abortions, with exceptions when a woman's life is at risk. State Health Department records show zero reported abortions in the state in 2023.
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the state's rejection of signed petitions for an abortion rights ballot initiative on Thursday, keeping the proposal from going before voters in November.
Doyle used the Titania McGrath pseudonym for My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism (2020), published by Little, Brown in September 2020. [ 16 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] He is the author of Free Speech and Why It Matters (2021) [ 25 ] and The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World (2022).