Arkansas lawmakers consider shifting funds from health care data hub to UAMS midwifery program • Arkansas Advocate
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- April 24, 2024
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- maternal health
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An Arkansas legislative panel on Tuesday approved diverting funds from a state health care data hub to start a midwifery education program at the state’s largest medical school. Rep. Mary Bentley, R-Perryville, proposed removing the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement from a section of a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences appropriations bill and rewriting […]
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Arkansas lawmakers advance proposal to double state-funded pregnancy resource center grant • Arkansas Advocate
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- April 18, 2024
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- 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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Trump comes out against Alabama IVF ruling as national Republicans scramble for distance • Alabama Reflector | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Former President Donald Trump called on Alabama lawmakers Friday to “find an immediate solution” to remedy a state Supreme Court ruling that threatened the availability of in vitro fertilization, and national Republicans running for Congress sought to distance themselves from the Alabama decision as well. In a post to his social media site, Truth Social, […]
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U.S. Senate Republican blocks legislation protecting in vitro fertilization • Alabama Reflector | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
WASHINGTON — U.S. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi blocked a bill from passing Wednesday that would have preserved access to in vitro fertilization nationwide, stalling a push by Democrats following a landmark Alabama Supreme Court decision. The court ruled earlier this month that frozen embryos counted as children under state law and parents could […]
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Republicans Suddenly Realize Alabama’s IVF Ruling Is Bad For Them | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
After years of demanding that the law recognize fetuses and embryos as living human beings, Republicans got what they asked for when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that a clinic’s accidental destruction of frozen embryos amounted to the wrongful death of a child. But within a matter of days, it became apparent that the decision […]
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Republican legislators push bills requiring government to collect reasons for abortion | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
All but seven state legislatures are now in session, and abortion-related bills continue to be introduced, especially in states where the procedure is already banned. It can be hard to monitor them all, so States Newsroom’s Reproductive Rights Today team will track certain bills that could become law in their respective states in a biweekly […]
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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
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- For AR People
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- reproductive health
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- 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
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- infant mortality
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- 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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City Council To Consider Resolution Calling For Public Fund Supporting Local Reproductive Health Organizations – CBS Baltimore | #citycouncil
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — City Councilmembers Zeke Cohen (District 1) and Phylicia Porter (District 10) are set to introduce a resolution at Monday night’s meeting calling on Mayor Brandon Scott and the council to create a public fund supporting local reproductive health organizations. Following the publication of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. […]
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