Arkansas lawmakers OK anti-abortion monument at Capitol

[RandySF]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A monument marking the number of abortions performed in Arkansas before Roe v. Wade was struck down would be built near the state Capitol under a bill lawmakers sent to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday.

The majority-Republican House approved by a 60-19 vote a proposal allowing the creation of a “monument to the unborn” on the Capitol grounds. The bill, which the Senate approved earlier this month, requires the secretary of state to permit and arrange the placement of the monument.

It also requires the Capitol Arts and Grounds Commission to oversee the selection of the artist and the design of the monument with input from anti-abortion groups.

Republican Rep. Mary Bentley, the bill’s House sponsor, said the legislation would allow the state to raise private money for a memorial to “remember those children we were not able to protect and we will not be able to forget.”

A law Arkansas approved in 2019 banning nearly all abortions took effect last year when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the 1973 Roe decision. Arkansas' ban only allows abortions to save the life of the mother in a medical emergency.




https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/arkansas-lawmakers-anti-abortion-monument-capitol-97866192

[Deuxcents]

1. What about the children who are born?

Do they have the same energy to make sure they’re educated, got enough food, coats, shoes? From the numbers, Arkansas is not doing so well with poverty n education rankings

[Skittles]

2. how about a monument to the people killed by guns

how about THAT you fucking repuke HYPOCRITES

[sakabatou]

3. We get it, Repukes, you hate women.

[Solly Mack]

4. Bother. These people are fucking warped.

Dangerous.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. What will a collection of cells look like?

Will they be life size? If so, it will be a very small statue.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. a woman chained to a hospital bed, being forced to give birth

[GuppyGal]

6. I see the puke are hard at work

[Phoenix61]

8. What artist wants to tank their career? nt

[sinkingfeeling]

9. That'll bring in the tourists.

[Model35mech]

10. As a trophy of oppression, what symbol of authoritariasm will it bear?

A Swastika or The Bird?

[Emile]

11. Who said Republicans can't govern. . .