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NEW YORK (Dagbladet): New law in Arkansas prohibits abortion in all cases, even if women become pregnant as a result of rape or incest. Only if it is the only way to save a woman’s life, can an abortion be performed, reports AP.
Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson is said to have been critical of parts of the law beforehand. But the day after International Women’s Day, she still found a pen and signed it.
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Supporters of the law hope it will be legally challenged and eventually end up in the Supreme Court. The decision of the country’s Supreme Court in 1973 in the case Roe v. Wade gives American women the right to a self-determined abortion. Opponents of abortion now hope the court will change after former US President Donald Trump appointed three conservative justices and tipped a majority in court in favor of the conservatives.
“We must ban abortion in this country, just as we banned slavery in the 19th century, all that matters is life,” said Republican State Senator Jason Rapert, according to the AP.
So far this year, at least 14 US state assemblies have received proposals to ban abortion.
– The prohibition contrasts with the binding precedent of the United States Supreme Court, but the purpose is that the law provides the basis for the Supreme Court to reverse its decision. I would have preferred the law to include rape and incest exceptions, which has been my consistent view, and such exceptions would have increased the chances of a review by the United States Supreme Court. Hutchinson says in a statement.
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Supporters of self-determined abortion react strongly. The American Civil Liberties Union has already announced that it will bring the law to the judiciary.
– This is politics at its worst. At a time when people need financial support and basic security, it is cruel, dangerous and downright unfair to eliminate access to abortion, says Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Alexis McGill Johnson, according to AP.
Arkansas already has some of the strictest abortion laws in the United States.
