Arkansas Referendums

 One Proposed Ballot Measures

for 2024

For the full list of referendums we’re tracking, see our home page.

 

 

 

Right to Abortion Initiative

HOPED FOR BALLOT: NOVEMBER 5. 2024

Abortion Referendum HawaiiSee Ballotpedia page for more information and updates.

Current status: Signatures being gathered. Due date: July 5, 2024 to be on the 2024 ballot; there’s no time limit, so if there are insufficient signatures this cycle, they can still use the ones they gathered for a later election. If they submit signatures and they’re at least 75% sufficient but not 100%, they have 30 more days to make up the deficit.

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We regard a “no” vote as helpful to the goal of ending violence.

This is one of several trying to establish a state constitutional right to abortion, so that the legislature couldn’t move to do further restrictions.

Abortion isn’t Freedom for Women

Setting aside the violence (and therefore lack of equal protection) done to unborn children, a point which proponents of this measure steadfastly ignore, the rhetoric they use about women also steadfastly ignores harm done. Here are some of the Consistent Life Network’s blog posts that explain this. They can offer good ideas for opponents of this measure to use in their work:

The Myth of Sexual Autonomy 

Abortion and Violence Against Pregnant Women

How Abortion is Useful for Rape Culture

The Message of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”: Abortion Gets Sexual Predators Off the Hook

Abortion Facilitates Sex Abuse: Documentation

Specific to Arkansas:

Problems at Planned Parenthood – Arkansas

Planned Parenthood Great Plains Cuts Staff Amid Complaints Of ‘Chaos And Toxicity’ KCUR (Kansas City Public Radio), by Dan Margolies, July 9, 2020.

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