{"id":268822,"date":"2022-05-25T15:55:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T20:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=268822"},"modified":"2022-05-25T08:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:58:25","slug":"arkansas-governor-rape-incest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/arkansas-governor-rape-incest\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas governor wants rape and incest exception added to state&#8217;s Roe v. Wade trigger law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In a recent interview with CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash on &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson said that he believes the state&#8217;s near-total ban on abortion &#8220;could&#8221; be revisited and that he would prefer to add exceptions to allow abortion for rape and incest.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson signed Arkansas&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/arkansas-ban-abortion-roe-overturned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trigger law<\/a>&#8221; in 2019. The law, which would go into effect should the Supreme Court overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, bans all abortions except those committed to save the life of the mother (this is a fallacy &#8212; abortion is <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-replies-abortion-never-medically-necessary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">never medically necessary<\/a>). Although Hutchinson signed the law, he did so with reservations, saying that he would have preferred that it include exceptions for rape and incest.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EWmM8glK4L0\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Bash grilled Hutchinson on why the law doesn&#8217;t include exceptions for rape or incest. &#8220;I want to discuss the real-world implications of this,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Why should an\u00a011- or 12-year-old girl who is impregnated by her father, or uncle or another family member be forced to carry that child to term?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI agree with you. I\u2019ve had to deal with that particular circumstance even as governor,&#8221; Hutchinson replied. &#8220;While it\u2019s still life in the womb, life of the unborn, it was, the conception was under criminal circumstances, either incest or rape, and so those are two exceptions I recognize, I believe are very appropriate, and what will happen as time goes on if Roe versus Wade is reversed, these are gonna become very real circumstances. I think the debate and discussion will be, will continue and that very well could be revisited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-after-rape-obstacle-healing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Abortion after rape is not a pathway to healing. It is an obstacle.<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bash pressed Hutchinson further on the issue, saying, \u201cGovernor, what if it can\u2019t be? You wanted the legislature in Arkansas to put those exceptions in. They didn\u2019t. Your term is almost up. What makes you think you can change it? And if you can&#8217;t, that means that women and girls &#8212; 11 and 12-year-olds &#8212; might be in this situation in a very real way in just a couple of months, potentially.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson conceded that those would be &#8220;heartbreaking circumstances,&#8221; later adding, &#8220;I believe that those exceptions are going to be important &#8230; overall to save lives because the public understands those exceptions, the importance of it. So I think that will be revisited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson&#8217;s desire to revisit the law to make abortions more accessible in Arkansas would be a tragedy &#8212; especially since he clearly states his belief that there is life in the womb. Abortion is <em>always<\/em> the intentional homicide of an undelivered child, even when that child is conceived in rape or incest. The child has nothing to do with the circumstances of his conception, and those circumstances should not mean a death sentence for him. Instead, there should be harsher penalties for rapists and sexual abusers. Furthermore, Hutchinson&#8217;s claim that rape and incest exceptions will <em>save lives<\/em> is completely false, since every abortion ends an innocent life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dUEomZ-O7t0\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rape is a horrible, violent act committed upon the mother. Abortion can never undo that trauma, and instead inflicts another kind of violence and trauma upon her. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-rape-regret-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Many<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rape-survivor-pregnant-regret-abortion-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">women<\/a> have shared their regret at aborting their child after rape, with one <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rape-horrific-trauma-abortion-cannot-heal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conceding<\/a> that &#8220;killing him did nothing to heal my pain.\u201d Much should be done to help women and girls who find themselves in this situation, but abortion is never the answer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/?ref=br_rs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash on &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson said that he believes the state&#8217;s near-total ban on abortion &#8220;could&#8221; be revisited and that he would prefer to add exceptions to allow abortion for rape and incest. Hutchinson signed Arkansas&#8217; &#8220;trigger law&#8221; in 2019. The law, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":268882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[19,1655,17468,291,5956,10242,14948,17470,144,17469,11015],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Arkansas governor wants rape and incest exception added to state&#039;s Roe v. Wade trigger law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Arkansas Gov. 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