Arkansas lawmakers advance proposal to double state-funded pregnancy resource center grant • Arkansas Advocate
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- April 18, 2024
- arkansas department of finance and administration
- Arkansas department of human services
- arkansas medicaid
- Clarke Tucker
- crisis pregnancy centers
- Denise Garner
- faith-based organizations
- grants
- infant mortality
- john payton
- Joint Budget Committee
- maternal health
- maternal mortality
- nicole clowney
- postpartum
- Pregnancy
- pregnancy resource center
- prenatal
- reproductive health
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- Trend – Abortion
An Arkansas legislative panel on Thursday approved the doubling of a taxpayer-funded grant to support pregnancy resource centers, which are often religiously affiliated and discourage abortion while encouraging birth. Republican leaders statewide have held up pregnancy resource centers as critical since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 and Arkansas subsequently […]
Read MoreArkansas lawmakers approve reversal of gender-neutral driver’s license policy • Arkansas Advocate
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- March 15, 2024
- arkansas department of finance and administration
- arkansas legislative council
- Clarke Tucker
- dmv
- drivers licenses
- gender identity
- gender neutral
- identification
- intersex
- Intransitive
- jim hudson
- lgbtq+
- missy irvin
- nonbinary
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- tippi mccullough
- transgender
- Trend – LGBTQ Attacks
This story was updated at 10:55 a.m. Friday, March 15, 2024. Arkansas lawmakers voted Friday to require driver’s licenses and state-issued IDs to reflect the gender listed on a person’s birth certificate. The state Department of Finance and Administration on Tuesday rescinded a policy that had been in place since 2010 allowing driver’s license holders […]
Read MoreArkansas lawmakers set to vote on reversal of gender-neutral driver’s license policy • Arkansas Advocate
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- March 14, 2024
- arkansas department of finance and administration
- arkansas legislative council
- Clarke Tucker
- dmv
- drivers licenses
- gender identity
- gender neutral
- identification
- intersex
- Intransitive
- jim hudson
- lgbtq+
- missy irvin
- nonbinary
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- tippi mccullough
- transgender
- Trend – LGBTQ Attacks
Arkansas lawmakers will vote Friday to require driver’s licenses and state-issued IDs to reflect the gender listed on a person’s birth certificate. The state Department of Finance and Administration on Tuesday rescinded a policy that had been in place since 2010 allowing driver’s license holders to change their gender with no questions asked or to […]
Read MoreArkansas rescinds gender-neutral driver’s license policy • Arkansas Advocate
The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration said Tuesday it’s rescinding its practice of allowing driver’s license holders to change their gender without verifiable information or to use an “X” in lieu of “male” or “female.” The department will now require driver’s licenses and IDs to reflect the gender listed on a person’s birth certificate. […]
Read MoreArkansas pregnancy centers seek help with advertising, material needs from $1M state grant
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- January 8, 2024
- abortion ban
- adoption
- advertising
- anti-abortion
- arkansas department of finance and administration
- baptist health
- crisis pregnancy centers
- faith-based organizations
- housing insecurity
- maternal health
- maternity homes
- Pregnancy
- pregnancy resource center
- prenatal
- reproductive rights
- st bernards healthcare
- teen pregnancy
- Trend – Abortion
Twenty-one pregnancy resource centers throughout Arkansas have applied for a taxpayer funds to bolster services for the second year in a row. The $1 million grant program will provide financial support to the centers, sometimes called “crisis pregnancy centers” and often religiously affiliated. Adoption agencies and maternity care homes are also eligible for the grant, […]
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