Arkansas lawmakers advance proposal to double state-funded pregnancy resource center grant • Arkansas Advocate
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Google-News-Wire
- 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 […]
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Arkansas agencies pursue initiatives to improve state’s maternal health • Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas officials are collaborating on outreach events and initiatives to fill gaps in women’s health care services in response to the governor’s directive to improve maternal health. Arkansas has the nation’s highest maternal mortality rate and the third highest infant mortality rate, according to the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. Black mothers are most at […]
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Arkansas governor authorizes committee, strategic plan aimed at bolstering maternal health • Arkansas Advocate
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday announced a campaign aimed at improving maternal health in Arkansas. At a morning press conference, Sanders signed an executive order creating a committee, which includes some cabinet officials, that will formulate a “comprehensive statewide strategic health plan.” One of the goals of the plan will be to connect more […]
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Arkansas maternal health care landscape needs more coordination and teamwork, physicians say
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Google-News-Wire
- February 22, 2024
- aaron pilkington
- Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
- Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM)
- Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
- arkansas hospital association
- French Hill
- gynecology
- John Boozman
- maternal health care
- maternal mental health
- maternal mortality
- medicaid
- Obstetrics
- postpartum
- Pregnancy
- prenatal
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- UAMS
Providers of prenatal and postpartum medical care in Arkansas need to better reach the general public and collaborate more with each other, elected officials and medical professionals agreed Wednesday at a roundtable discussion about maternal health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. U.S. Sen. John Boozman’s office coordinated the discussion between him, U.S. […]
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If Arkansas claims to protect life, it needs to do more for mothers and infants
Public officials and journalists use the word “crisis” a lot, sometimes when a situation is less than critical. But when it comes to the state of maternal health in Arkansas, “crisis” seems a mild term. The statistics on maternal deaths certainly paint a dire picture, and a new report last week added to the sense […]
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Arkansas AG rejects proposed ballot measure to make abortion access a constitutional right
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Google-News-Wire
- November 28, 2023
- 2024 election
- abortion
- abortion access
- abortion ban
- abortion policy
- amendment 68
- Arkansas Abortion Support Network
- Arkansas Attorney General
- ballot initiative
- ballot measures
- Denise Garner
- For AR People
- gestation
- maternal mortality
- reproductive health
- reproductive rights
- tim griffin
- Trend – Abortion
- Trend – Election 2024
A proposed constitutional amendment ensuring a limited right to abortion in Arkansas will not appear on the 2024 statewide ballot, Attorney General Tim Griffin wrote in a Tuesday opinion. His seven-page letter to Steven Nichols, the Arkansan who submitted the proposal, pointed out several aspects of the ballot language that Griffin said need clarity or […]
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Proposed Arkansas ballot measure would make abortion access a constitutional right
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Google-News-Wire
- November 28, 2023
- 2024 election
- abortion
- abortion access
- abortion ban
- ballot measures
- Ballot Title
- constitutional amendment
- direct democracy
- dobbs
- For AR People
- infant mortality
- maternal health
- maternal mortality
- petition
- reproductive health
- reproductive rights
- Roe V. Wade
- tim griffin
- Trend – Abortion
- Trend – Election 2024
The Arkansas Attorney General’s Office will decide Tuesday whether a proposed measure to enshrine abortion as a constitutional right will go on the 2024 statewide ballot. State government entities would not be allowed to “prohibit, penalize, delay or restrict” Arkansans’ access to abortion up to 18 weeks of pregnancy under the Arkansas Reproductive Healthcare Amendment, […]
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