Then-Arkansas Governor-elect Sarah Huckabee Sanders is pictured on the November 2022 Republican Governors Affiliation convention in Orlando, Florida. Sanders signed a brand new legislation that might permit an anti-abortion monument to be constructed close to the State Capitol.
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Then-Arkansas Governor-elect Sarah Huckabee Sanders is pictured on the November 2022 Republican Governors Affiliation convention in Orlando, Florida. Sanders signed a brand new legislation that might permit an anti-abortion monument to be constructed close to the State Capitol.
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into legislation a brand new legislation that might place a monument subsequent to the State Capitol to commemorate the variety of abortions completed in Arkansas earlier than it was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court docket. Rowe vs Wade.
Sanders’ workplace stated late Friday that the Republican governor has signed a invoice that might permit the creation of a privately funded “monument to the unborn” on the Capitol grounds. The invoice, authorized by lawmakers final week, would require the Secretary of State to authorize and prepare for the monument to be erected.
It additionally requires the Capitol Fee on Arts and Territory to supervise the collection of the artist and the design of the monument, with enter from anti-abortion teams.
Arkansas handed a 2019 legislation banning almost all abortions that went into impact final yr when the U.S. Supreme Court docket overturned the 1973 legislation. Caviar resolution. The Arkansas ban solely permits abortions to avoid wasting the mom’s life in a medical emergency.
In 2018, Tennessee legislators authorized laws permitting an analogous privately funded monument to be constructed on the Capitol grounds. The monument has not but been erected.
The Arkansas proposal met with opposition from some anti-abortion Republicans, who stated it was counterproductive, and Democrats, who stated the monument proposal was divisive.
Different memorials on the grounds of the State Capitol embrace a sculpture of the 9 black college students who merged Little Rock Central Excessive College. In 2018, a monument to the Ten Commandments was erected on the grounds of the Capitol.
