{"id":242997,"date":"2021-04-09T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=242997"},"modified":"2021-04-09T14:46:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T19:46:24","slug":"one-million-signatures-arkansas-law-banning-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/one-million-signatures-arkansas-law-banning-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"One million signatures needed to help uphold Arkansas law banning abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An organization called The Moral Outcry, operating under The Justice Foundation, has for years aimed to see Roe v. Wade<\/em> overturned. While that goal is still in progress, the group is now looking to achieve one million signatures on a petition<\/a> to uphold an Arkansas law<\/a> that protects nearly every preborn child from abortion in the pro-life state.<\/p>\n

According to Allan Parker, president of The Justice Foundation, the Arkansas law is based directly on the Moral Outcry’s petition. Already, the abortion industry is signaling its intent to sue and overturn this pro-life law. “This abortion ban is plainly unconstitutional and we stand ready to challenge it and any effort to block Arkansans from care or dictate their personal medical decisions,” the ACLU of Arkansas said in a statement<\/a>. “We will be seeing the state of Arkansas in court again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A scroll with nearly 250,000 signatures from the Moral Outcry petition, unrolled in the Arkansas rotunda.<\/p><\/div>\n

Because of this threat and the seemingly inevitable court battle to come, The Moral Outcry and The Justice Foundation are preemptively gathering support, with the goal of one million signatures to be presented to the courts in favor of the law.<\/p>\n

“This is a simple way for everyone who opposes abortion to be involved in seeing it stopped. This is not political. It is justice,” read\u00a0a letter<\/a>\u00a0sent to Live Action News from The Moral Outcry. “Under the ‘Law of Judicial Precedent’ co-authored by Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, every signature on The Moral\u00a0Outcry Petition is ‘severe criticism’ which is a reason for overturning a Supreme Court decision.”<\/p>\n

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With one million signatures on the petition, pressure can be created on the Supreme Court to uphold the Arkansas law, just as the quarter of a million signatures in Arkansas helped to push for the law to be put into place. The photo of the scroll unfurled into the Arkansas rotunda was placed on the desk of every state senator on the day of the vote, and the bill ultimately passed with over a two-thirds majority in the legislature \u2014 showing that the voices of the people matter.<\/p>\n