Arkansas lawmakers advance proposal to double state-funded pregnancy resource center grant • Arkansas Advocate
- 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 […]
Read MoreArkansas maternal health care landscape needs more coordination and teamwork, physicians say
- 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. […]
Read MoreArkansas pregnancy centers seek help with advertising, material needs from $1M state grant
- Google-News-Wire
- 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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