The Arkansas House passed a bill to build a monument on state Capitol grounds marking the number of abortions carried out in the state before the end of Roe v. Wade.
. The proposal to create a so-called monument to the unborn near the state Capitol was approved in a 60-19 vote. The memorial, which would commemorate “unborn children aborted during the era of,” was opposed by Republican Rep.
Jeremiah Moore on the grounds that it would represent a “poke in the eye to all those who do not share our beliefs.” “It is not a poke in the eye,” Rep. Cindy Crawford said before the vote. “It is a ‘God forgive us for what we have done.’” After thedecision last year, Arkansas banned almost all abortions except in cases where it could save a mother’s life in a medical emergency.
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