(CTN NEWS) – Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders had signed laws permitting a monument close to the state Capitol to commemorate the variety of abortions carried out in Arkansas earlier than Roe v. Wade was overruled by the Supreme Court docket of america.
Sanders’s workplace introduced Friday evening that the Republican governor had signed laws authorizing the institution of a privately funded “monument to the unborn” on Capitol grounds.
The invoice, permitted by lawmakers final week, requires the secretary of state to approve and coordinate the monument’s placement.
It additionally requires the Capitol Arts and Grounds Fee to supervise the artist choice and monument design, with enter from anti-abortion teams.
Abortion Ban In U.S.
When america Supreme Court docket overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade determination, Arkansas’s legislation prohibiting practically all abortions went into impact final 12 months.
The ban in Arkansas solely permits abortions to save lots of the mom’s life in a medical emergency.
Tennessee lawmakers permitted laws in 2018 permitting an identical privately funded monument on the state Capitol’s grounds. The monument shouldn’t be but in place.
Arkansas’ proposal was met with opposition from ban Republicans who stated it was counterproductive and Democrats who stated it was divisive.
A sculpture of the 9 Black college students who built-in Little Rock Central Excessive Faculty can be on the state Capitol grounds. In 2018, a Ten Commandments monument was erected on Capitol Hill.
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