LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a brand new regulation that may permit a monument close to the state Capitol marking the variety of abortions carried out in Arkansas earlier than the U.S. Supreme Courtroom struck down Roe v. Wade.
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New law allows anti-abortion monument at Arkansas Capitol
It additionally requires the Capitol Arts and Grounds Fee to supervise the choice of the artist and the design of the monument, with enter from anti-abortion teams.
A regulation Arkansas authorised in 2019 banning almost all abortions took impact final yr when the U.S. Supreme Courtroom struck down the 1973 Roe resolution. Arkansas’ ban solely permits abortions to avoid wasting the lifetime of the mom in a medical emergency.
Tennessee lawmakers authorised laws in 2018 permitting an analogous privately funded monument on its Capitol grounds. The monument has not but been put in.
Arkansas’ proposal confronted opposition from some anti-abortion Republicans who mentioned it was counterproductive, and Democrats who mentioned the monument proposal was divisive.
Different monuments on the state Capitol grounds embody a sculpture of the 9 Black college students who built-in Little Rock Central Excessive College. A Ten Commandments monument was put in on the Capitol grounds in 2018.