Arkansas is joining a number of states with so-called “trigger” laws to enact such regulations in the hours following the Supreme Court’s decision.
From KARK:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The right to an abortion in the state of Arkansas is now gone following the certification of a 2019 law triggered by the Supreme Court’s official overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision Friday morning.
The Court issued its official ruling in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which was challenging a Mississippi abortion ban after 15 weeks.
The court upheld the ban in a 6-3 ruling, and in a ruling penned by Justice Samuel Alito, five of the justices said that both the 1973 Roe ruling and the 1992 Planned Parenthood vs Casey ruling, which reaffirmed Roe, were “egregiously wrong” and needed to be overturned.
In 2019, Arkansas passed Act 180, titled the Arkansas Human Life Protection Act. The legislation effectively bans abortion in the state, with the lone exception of saving the life of the mother. The legislation included a provision that would activate the law whenever the Roe decision was overruled in whole or in part.
The only other step required was the certification of the law by the state’s Attorney General. During a news conference Friday afternoon, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge did just that.
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