Arkansas
Arkansas’s Republican Governor to Install ‘Monument to the Unborn’ at State Capitol
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R.) signed a invoice on Thursday to put in a “monument to the unborn” on the state capitol within the wake of the Supreme Courtroom’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, the Related Press reported.
State Senate Invoice 307 will create a monument to memorialize “unborn youngsters aborted” within the state earlier than the overturn of Roe on June 24, 2022. After the Excessive Courtroom struck down the ruling, Arkansas enacted a complete ban on abortion besides in instances of emergency when the lifetime of the mom is in peril.
“Many tax {dollars} went to organizations that supported and inspired abortions,” state Sen. Kim Hammer (R.), a invoice sponsor, informed ABC Information. “I’ll defend remembering the 250,000 harmless infants by way of a visible reminder within the hopes that we are going to by no means repeat a horrible chapter in our nation’s historical past.”
The potential monument will distinction with the pro-abortion statue New York Metropolis Democrats put in earlier this 12 months above the NYC courthouse. Metropolis officers unveiled the eight-foot statue of a horned lady with tentacle arms in an effort to promote abortion rights and present “the resilience of girls.”
Republicans criticized the statue’s aesthetic qualities, which some have known as demonic.
“Was there any public enter in any way earlier than a satanic golden medusa demon with tentacle arms was put in atop a downtown courthouse?” NYC Councilwoman Vickie Paladino requested.