Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has rejected the suggested name for and language used in a proposed ballot measure that sought to codify abortion rights within the state’s constitution.
The measure was submitted earlier this month by Arkansans for Limited Government, a ballot question committee (BQC) formed by the left-leaning nonprofit organization For AR People.
The organization’s proposed popular name for the ballot measure was “The Arkansas Reproductive Healthcare Amendment.” The proposed ballot language described an amendment to the state’s constitution that barred state officials from prohibiting, restricting, or penalizing access to abortion within the first 18 weeks after conception, cases where a pregnancy arose from rape or incest, cases where a pregnancy posed a risk to the “health” of the mother, or when there was a “fatal fetal anomaly.”
Read the full article here