ERA Bill That Would Promote Abortion Suffers Defeat in Arkansas

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Little Rock, AR (LifeNews.com) – In a surprising vote, an Arkansas state legislative committee defeated a resolution to make the state the next to approve the federal Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Pro-life groups launched an effort to defeat the bill because the amendment has been used to promote abortion and taxpayer funding of it.
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A state House panel voted down a ratification resolution (HJR 1002) after 20 co-sponsors abandoned it following the concerted pro-life lobbying effort.
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National Right to Life and its state affiliate, Arkansas Right to Life, opposed the ERA bill.
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They said the sweeping language of the 1972 ERA would be used as a legal weapon against virtually all laws that regulate abortion. It has been used for that purpose other states, including Connecticut and New Mexico, where it a court cited it as requiring the state to pay for abortions.
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Praise God that the bill was defeated! :clapping:
 
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