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ANDREW DeMILLO. July 25, 2024 at 3:41 PM. ... Organizers submitted more than 101,000 signatures on the July 5 deadline in favor of the proposal to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban. But state ...
A proposed measure that would have allowed Arkansans to vote on expanding abortion rights in the state will not be on the ballot in November, the state Supreme Court said on Thursday.. In a 4-3 ...
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.
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.
Rapert supports banning abortion without exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of the mother. [9] In 2013, Rapert authored a bill to ban all abortions in Arkansas after twelve weeks of pregnancy. [10] Then-Governor Mike Beebe (D) vetoed the bill as unconstitutional, but Republican-majority Legislature overrode the veto. [11]
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.
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 ...
Abortion was illegal in North Dakota from 2022 to 2024, until Judge Bruce Romanick ruled that the state's abortion ban violated the Constitution of North Dakota's equality provisions. [ 160 ] [ 161 ] The law technically made exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman, or, until 6 weeks into a pregnancy, in cases of rape or incest.