Arkansas’ near-total abortion ban faced its first legal challenge Wednesday with a lawsuit from four women and a physician who argue the prohibition should be struck down in its entirety
House Bill 1180, the Baby Olivia Act, passed with 70 votes for it, all from Republicans. The bill would require each public school district and open-enrollment public charter school to incorporate a human growth and development discussion into existing health and safety courses from fifth grade onward
The court’s majority opinion concludes a five-week legal dispute over the signatures collected by paid canvassers for the proposed amendment
The Arkansas Abortion Amendment has been tied up in a legal dispute for the past month after AFLG filed a complaint against Thurston’s office with the Arkansas Supreme Court
The decline was significant in most states with restrictive bans following Dobbs in June 2022 that returned regulation of abortion procedures to the states
Arkansans for Limited Government filed a lawsuit in the Arkansas Supreme Court against Secretary of State John Thurston for what the group calls Thurston’s failure to fulfill his constitutional and statutory duties
Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston rejected the submission of more than 101,000 signatures for a proposed constitutional amendment that would create a limited right to abortion
