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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew law allows anti-abortion monument at Arkansas Capitol
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a new law that will allow a monument near the state Capitol marking the number of abortions performed in Arkansas before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.
Sanders office said Friday night that the Republican governor signed the bill that will allow the creation of a privately funded monument to the unborn on the Capitol grounds. The bill, approved by lawmakers last week, 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.
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.
Tennessee lawmakers approved legislation in 2018 allowing a similar privately funded monument on its Capitol grounds. The monument has not yet been installed.
https://apnews.com/article/huckabee-sanders-abortion-ban-arkansas-capitol-monument-9efa40bd10d3f3a1c6a9c70ed4986ae5
Sanders office said Friday night that the Republican governor signed the bill that will allow the creation of a privately funded monument to the unborn on the Capitol grounds. The bill, approved by lawmakers last week, 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.
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.
Tennessee lawmakers approved legislation in 2018 allowing a similar privately funded monument on its Capitol grounds. The monument has not yet been installed.
https://apnews.com/article/huckabee-sanders-abortion-ban-arkansas-capitol-monument-9efa40bd10d3f3a1c6a9c70ed4986ae5
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New law allows anti-abortion monument at Arkansas Capitol (Original Post)
demmiblue
Mar 2023
OP
I can see the lifeless manikins spray-painted below the waist with bright red paint--adorning
hlthe2b
Mar 2023
#1
Second all replies--and suggest a monument of a gun with bloody bodies lying around it.
Timeflyer
Mar 2023
#8
hlthe2b
(101,714 posts)1. I can see the lifeless manikins spray-painted below the waist with bright red paint--adorning
this monument every day for the indefinite future. Given it would not be vandalism (albeit littering, I suppose), I heartily endorse such actions.
Lovie777
(11,986 posts)2. Still won't change many...................
MuseRider
(34,058 posts)3. Maybe there will be
a pit to throw us in and burn us for our sins. Sounds possible.
Emile
(21,892 posts)4. I hope they are not using federal money to pay for it!
riversedge
(69,716 posts)5. As I read crap like this, it is hard sometimes to believe it is 2023!!
Ocelot II
(115,276 posts)6. How about a monument to all the women who died
as the result of botched illegal abortions, or because they were unable to get an abortion for an ectopic pregnancy or other life-threatening condition?
Hekate
(90,189 posts)7. May it happen to you, Sarah
Timeflyer
(1,961 posts)8. Second all replies--and suggest a monument of a gun with bloody bodies lying around it.
A monument to the "were born, killed by guns, but that's o.k. because 2nd amendment..."