{"id":228589,"date":"2020-08-08T15:39:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T20:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=228589"},"modified":"2020-08-08T15:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T20:09:03","slug":"appeals-court-lifts-ban-pro-life-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/appeals-court-lifts-ban-pro-life-arkansas\/","title":{"rendered":"WIN: Appeals court lifts ban on pro-life laws in Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four restrictions on abortion<\/a> in Arkansas will no longer be blocked after a ruling announced this week. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2017 ruling, surprisingly citing the June Medical Services v. Russo<\/em>\u00a0Supreme Court decision issued earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Previously, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights successfully challenged the restrictions on behalf of Frederick Hopkins, a Little Rock abortionist. Four specific measures were blocked, including restrictions on how to dispose of aborted babies’ remains, a ban on sex-selective abortion, a requirement to notify police and preserve some fetal tissue from abortions committed on girls under 14, and a ban on dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion procedures.<\/p>\n

The most common abortion procedure in the second trimester, a D&E abortion takes several days to complete, and is extraordinarily violent; the abortionist literally rips the preborn baby apart limb by limb, when the child can almost certainly feel pain<\/a>. Recent research revealed that babies in the womb likely feel pain by the end of the first trimester, if not sooner.<\/p>\n