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demmiblue

(36,744 posts)
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 02:28 PM Mar 2023

New 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


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hlthe2b

(101,714 posts)
1. I can see the lifeless manikins spray-painted below the waist with bright red paint--adorning
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 02:31 PM
Mar 2023

this monument every day for the indefinite future. Given it would not be vandalism (albeit littering, I suppose), I heartily endorse such actions.

Ocelot II

(115,276 posts)
6. How about a monument to all the women who died
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 03:20 PM
Mar 2023

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?

Timeflyer

(1,961 posts)
8. Second all replies--and suggest a monument of a gun with bloody bodies lying around it.
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 03:32 PM
Mar 2023

A monument to the "were born, killed by guns, but that's o.k. because 2nd amendment..."

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