Abortion amendment supporters ask Arkansas Supreme Court to overturn Secretary of State’s rejection
Dispute involves whether submitted paperwork complies with state law
By - July 16, 2024Dispute involves whether submitted paperwork complies with state law
By - July 16, 2024Thurston cites law requiring affidavit identifying paid canvassers by name
By Tess Vrbin, Arkansas Advocate - July 10, 2024In Arizona, the state’s highest court upheld a Civil War-era abortion ban. Florida and South Carolina moved to restrict abortion to six weeks — before many people know they are pregnant.
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Idaho Capital Sun - June 24, 2024Republican AGs say the rules support abortions in states where they’re illegal.
By Anna Claire Vollers - May 22, 2024A GOP-backed bill would block Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood. Health care providers fear it will harm patients’ access to critical care
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent - March 28, 2024Arkansas could become the first Southern state to make abortion a constitutional right if voters approve the measure in November.
By Antoinette Grajeda, Arkansas Advocate - February 02, 2024The 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.
By Tess Vrbin, Arkansas Advocate - November 27, 2023Act 372 would have put librarians and booksellers at risk of prosecution for displaying content deemed ‘harmful to minors.’
By Will Fritz - August 01, 2023Alabama, Arkansas, and Missouri are some of the other states where restrictions on expression related to sexual orientation or gender may affect education.
By Associated Press - March 27, 2023An 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.
By Lisa Needham - August 31, 2022Arkansas’ 2021 legislation outlawing gender-affirming care is just one of several anti-transgender laws around the country that courts have blocked or scrutinized.
By Associated Press - August 26, 2022‘It felt like my life was being signed away,’ an Arkansas teenager told the New York Times in January.
By Casey Quinlan - February 23, 2022The number of active cases of COVID has surged over 12,770 in Arkansas, and two children were reported to have died.
By Oliver Willis - July 23, 2021Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told a talk show host he has ‘another solution.’
By Casey Quinlan - July 20, 2021The ACLU is suing to overturn a new state law that bans gender-affirming health care.
By Casey Quinlan - May 26, 2021The law was designed to bar Planned Parenthood from working with schools.
By Lisa Needham - May 06, 2021Montana, Tennessee, and Arkansas want to keep gender identity and sexual orientation out of school curricula.
By Casey Quinlan - April 27, 2021Lawmakers have used the repeated lie that the 2020 election was rife with fraud as justification for their voter suppression bills.
By Emily Singer - April 26, 2021‘No physician wants to risk their practice and their reputation and their medical license,’ said an Arkansas pediatrician.
By Casey Quinlan - April 23, 2021While lawmakers debate their rights in statehouses across the nation, trans youth refused to be left out of the conversation.
By Casey Quinlan - April 16, 2021Arkansas 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.
By Emily Singer - April 13, 2021State lawmakers who’ve introduced discriminatory bills targeting LGBTQ minors are on ‘notice,’ legal experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - April 06, 2021Legislation passed by the House would offer an eight-year pathway to citizenship to an estimated 11 million people.
By Associated Press - April 02, 2021A study from the Brennan Center for Justice found the onslaught of voter suppression legislation is ramping up nationwide.
By Emily Singer - April 01, 2021The Arkansas General Assembly has passed three anti-LGBTQ bills in the current session, and two have been enacted so far this year.
By Casey Quinlan - March 30, 2021The bill would allow insurance companies, hospitals, pharmacies, and medical practitioners to deny people health care services based on religious, moral, or ethical beliefs.
By Casey Quinlan - March 29, 2021Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Matt Sharp intentionally misgendered transgender athletes in testimony to the Arkansas Senate.
By Oliver Willis - March 12, 2021The right-wing group Family Council says it worked closely with the bill’s primary sponsor.
By Oliver Willis - March 10, 2021The Arkansas Republican also says liberals want to throw out the Declaration of Independence.
By Oliver Willis - February 26, 2021The Arkansas Republican wants to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $10. His own state’s is already $11.
By Josh Israel - February 23, 2021