LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas lawmakers on Wednesday approved legislation banning nearly all abortions, sending the bill to a Republican governor who has expressed reservations about the move.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who has approved several major abortion restrictions since taking office in 2015, stopped short of saying whether he’ll sign this bill and told reporters he’d make a decision next week. National Right to Life has not taken a position on the bill, though its state affiliate and other anti-abortion groups in Arkansas have backed the measure.
rape and incest victims will die/coathangers, this is very sick!!! studies from bosnia show those women, victims used as weapons of war just abused their unwanted children, this is SICK, SICK, SICK
this is sick, life starts at the breathe!!! what next putting women who miscarry in jail like south america? forced child marriage? rape and incest victims will bleed out in backalley abortions, arkansas foster system is already full, children should be WANTED, its SICK!
We have to tell women what they can do with their bodies, but you can't tell us to wear masks because you can't tell me what to do with my body!
The outcome when a bunch of old, opionated white guys decide what is best for a woman... nothing good from their ignorance and apathy.
Ahh yes so prolife but when a woman wants an abortion and gets a back alley coat hanger and her and the fetus die anyway... yeah smooth brains.
Is Penis removal included in this legislation for any man convicted of rape
It doesn't fuckin matter, this bill is political theater that they KNOW will be struck down immediately by the courts. They're counting on it.
All these states are hostile places for women to live. Pretty soon only men will be walking around in Little Rock. Women have a fucking right to choose what to do with their own bodies. They choose when they want to get pregnant and not. They have to carry, feed & love babies.
Violation of privacy
Inhumane. Period.
Anyone reading this interested in promoting abortion access in Arkansas should donate to ARAbortionSppt!
This is draconian, misogynistic, and batshit.
It’s going to come down to SCOTUS on this issue at the end of the day.
The GOP is like an anchor on the state dragging it down to the bottom of everything but scenery. Hard to live on ideology alone. And it shows.
Why is the State taking away a woman's right, to chose weather to have a child or not. Are women not mature enough to make that decision.
It's all about punishing women. I'm so sick of this sh*t.
How about reservations for robbing women of bodily autonomy and making them sub-human in law? Republicans are rabid misogynists.
They never sleep.
More wasted taxpayer dollars to push personal and religious idolatry were the few want to control the many. Imaginative lawmaking.
Isn't there a global pandemic? Doesn't Arkansas have like one of the WORST education rankings in the nation? GOP don't know how to lead or do their JOBS. Help the people in your state, instead of this uterine micro-managing bullpucky, you incompetent losers.
Out right discrimination against the poor who have neither vehicle nor credit card. Why do the Legislators in the south work so hard to keep the poor poor and to repress their vote.
Always good to see a majority of men making decisions for women. So sad
Arkansas lawmakers send governor bill to require strict state enforcement of specific religious codes. Casualties expected due to Arkansas’s high maternal mortality rate.
But once the baby's born, screw 'em.
So.....wearing a mask or not is a personal right, but controlling one's own body and medical decisions is not? What a bunch of hypocritical asses.
US is obsessed abt abortion when it has been legal in UK Spain n Ireland We know that pop growth is Africa is growing too fast If not controlled millions of young Africans would head to EU
And a 100% approval of insurrection
Neanderthals
Red States: Banning guns won't stop gun crime! Also Red States: We must ban abortion to stop abortions!
Oh those silly old men. Disgustingly silly old men. Making rules that have absolutely nothing to do with them. Demand more vasectomies. I mean lots and lots. And lots
More men deciding what a woman can do with her own body
Women, we are second class citizens! Ridiculous
Absolutely disgusting 😤
Amazing that the party that says nobody can force people to wear a simple mask, can demand that women be forced to continue a pregnancy, with no demands put on the men that created them.
“Exceptions in the case of rape and incest” Hmm....though I disagree with everything these religious zealots stand for it never ceases to amaze me how their moral code about life gets wishy washy depending on the mode of conception. Pro-choice some of the time huh?
A clear violation of one our most fundamental rights. The right to choose what we think is best for one's self!
This is happening in other states as well. They know its wrong, they are doing it on purpose. Its a coordinated attempt to get Abortion before the Supreme Court. Thats all this is.
I just have no words. NO ONE has the right to tell a woman what she can do with her body.
Ahhh, Arkansas. Where it's almost alabama
Arkansas is a bad state to live in. Don't the Huckabee family including the dog killer live there?
woman of arkansas, you know what to do.
Silly rednecks, don't like gov't telling them to wear masks but gladly usurp a women's right to choose.
and they have so much poverty...women should abandon their unwanted children at the capitol doorstep!
Sad 😔
It makes my blood boil when I think about this. How dare they decide what medical procedure I can have done? Shame on them.
This is so futile. Banning abortion will not stop a desperate woman from ending a pregnancy. There is no way to stop a woman from doing it if she wants to bad enough. If you want to end abortions then provide women with options they can live with.
Same old story...blah, blah, blah
Have protective sex..Stop killing our babies ✊🏾
Great job AR, the long term consequences of this are never talked about and it is always publicized as women’s rights. Need more public education on the adverse effects of abortion and more counseling options. Ending life should not be an option anywhere in this nation.
Unconstitutional
'Right to Life' is repeated. Typo?
Every legislator who votes for this should be sued personally &as a state official for every maternal death/injury that results bc someone wanted an abortion but couldn't get one due to this InjurePregnantWomen bill. Also for every child who is born with special needs.
Lol. Republicans are further persuading the moderate voters, huh? Good luck with this decade guys.
How inhumane. The sexist legislation needs to end. Vote republicans out.
dogma ideology.............. no logic/commonsense.......
my god. the harm from this leg will result in unnecessary deaths. oh, but it's ok for rape & incest. hutchinson weak response is criminal
Republicans picking up pace to make Handsmaid real.
Blessed be the fruit, under His Eye
Who votes for these utterly awful people?
That’s one 3rd world hole where we won’t be taking any detours.
Very disappointing news.
I can’t wait until Republicans go extinct
Women, I’m sorry there are places in the world where you don’t get to decide what to do with your own body.
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