Arkansas adopts US's most restrictive abortion law

(AP)   Arkansas lawmakers overrode a veto Wednesday and gave the state the most restrictive abortion law in the country - a near-ban on the procedure from the 12th week of pregnancy onward that is certain to end up in court.

A day after the Republican-led state Senate voted to override Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe's veto, the GOP-controlled House voted 56-33 to do the same. Only a simple majority was needed in each chamber.

The vote comes less than a week after the Legislature overrode a veto of a separate bill banning most abortions starting in the 20th week of pregnancy. That bill took effect immediately after the final override vote, whereas the 12-week ban wouldn't take effect until this summer.

Abortion rights proponents have already said they'll sue to block the 12-week ban from taking effect. Beebe warned lawmakers that both measures are likely to fail in court and that the state would end up wasting money defending them if they became law.  (continue at AP)

There is a new debate in the Republican Party as to whether the RNC needs to toss out social issues like our stance against abortion.  If we cannot stand for the innocent unborn child, what can we stand for?

 

Comments

[R.J. Godlewski]

If I may quote from Page 68 of OF WHAT PRICE, HEAVEN?

"Respect for human life, from conception to natural death, is non-negotiable for Salvation. The taking of another human life can only be considered in one of three ways: legitimate defense by military force, personal self-defense against a belligerent party, and proper application of capital punishment by legitimate public authority. Under no circumstances can the truly innocent – the unborn – be subjected to termination of life: 'From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person – among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.'”

[References cited within book]

[Skunkfeathers]

Good for Arkansas. Granted, they'll draw a slew of libtard morons who prefer killing the unborn (and will start in on the elderly once nobama's hellthscare is fully in place), but a stand must be taken somewhere.

[Debbie]

Exactly right R.J. and Skunkfeathers.