A GOP-backed bill would block Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood. Health care providers fear it will harm patients’ access to critical care

Arkansas could become the first Southern state to make abortion a constitutional right if voters approve the measure in November.

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.

Act 372 would have put librarians and booksellers at risk of prosecution for displaying content deemed ‘harmful to minors.’

Alabama, Arkansas, and Missouri are some of the other states where restrictions on expression related to sexual orientation or gender may affect education.

An overview of six of the 12 states with strict abortion bans after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision shows the drastic effects anti-abortion policies can have.

Arkansas’ 2021 legislation outlawing gender-affirming care is just one of several anti-transgender laws around the country that courts have blocked or scrutinized.

‘It felt like my life was being signed away,’ an Arkansas teenager told the New York Times in January.

The number of active cases of COVID has surged over 12,770 in Arkansas, and two children were reported to have died.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told a talk show host he has ‘another solution.’

The ACLU is suing to overturn a new state law that bans gender-affirming health care.

The law was designed to bar Planned Parenthood from working with schools.

Montana, Tennessee, and Arkansas want to keep gender identity and sexual orientation out of school curricula.

Lawmakers have used the repeated lie that the 2020 election was rife with fraud as justification for their voter suppression bills.

‘No physician wants to risk their practice and their reputation and their medical license,’ said an Arkansas pediatrician.

While lawmakers debate their rights in statehouses across the nation, trans youth refused to be left out of the conversation.

Arkansas Republicans are on the brink of passing a new law that would make it a crime to go within 100 feet of a polling place for any purpose other than voting.

State lawmakers who’ve introduced discriminatory bills targeting LGBTQ minors are on ‘notice,’ legal experts say.

Legislation passed by the House would offer an eight-year pathway to citizenship to an estimated 11 million people.

A study from the Brennan Center for Justice found the onslaught of voter suppression legislation is ramping up nationwide.

The Arkansas General Assembly has passed three anti-LGBTQ bills in the current session, and two have been enacted so far this year.

The bill would allow insurance companies, hospitals, pharmacies, and medical practitioners to deny people health care services based on religious, moral, or ethical beliefs.

Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Matt Sharp intentionally misgendered transgender athletes in testimony to the Arkansas Senate.

The right-wing group Family Council says it worked closely with the bill’s primary sponsor.

The Arkansas Republican also says liberals want to throw out the Declaration of Independence.

The Arkansas Republican wants to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $10. His own state’s is already $11.

And every call will be added to a database.

She says she’s the “last line of defense” for Arkansas.

Abortion rights victories are getting more and more tenuous in the hands of the conservative Supreme Court.

The entire judicial process highlights just how tenuous abortion access is in states like Arkansas.