“It does not say what it is and what it is not, and so that leaves it very unclear for a federal judge to interpret this language,” Dean said. She’ll have to endure full-term labor and childbirth, potentially major surgery… and then, after all of that and without any chance that the outcome could have been any different, she will leave the hospital with no baby,” Clowney said.Ĭlowney said Arkansas’ abortion laws also ban early delivery in these cases, potentially robbing parents of the chance to see and hold their child alive, if only briefly.Ĭherisse Dean with the conservative advocacy group the Family Council spoke against the bill, saying it doesn’t specifically define which medical conditions would be applicable. “She’ll have to go to the grocery store, she’ll have to have strangers rub her belly, ask her how she’s feeling, ask her if the nursery’s done and if she’s chosen a name.
Nicole Clowney of Fayetteville, said it would help minimize the trauma felt by women who, under current Arkansas law, must carry a fetus to term despite any diagnoses during pregnancy. Lawmakers on the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor committee rejected House Bill 1301, which would allow for abortions in cases of fetal abnormalities incompatible with life.
An effort to roll back Arkansas’ near-total ban on abortion failed in the state legislature Tuesday.
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