NEW YORK (Dagbladet): The new law in Arkansas prohibits abortion in all cases – even if women become pregnant as a result of rape or incest. Only if it is the only way to save a woman’s life can an abortion be performed, reports AP.
Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson is said to have been critical of parts of the law beforehand. But the day after International Women’s Day, he still found a pen and signed it.
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Supporters of the law hope that it will be challenged legally and eventually end up in the Supreme Court. The decision of the country’s Supreme Court in 1973 in the case Roe v. Wade gives American women the right to self-determined abortion. Opponents of abortion now hope that the court will turn around after the former US president, Donald Trump, appointed three conservative judges and tipped the majority in court in conservative favor.
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“We must ban abortion in this country, just as we banned slavery in the 19th century – all life matters,” said Republican state senator Jason Rapert, according to the AP.
So far this year, at least 14 US state assemblies have received proposals to ban abortion.
– The ban is in contrast to the binding precedent from the US Supreme Court, but the purpose is for the law to lay the foundation for the Supreme Court to reverse its decision. I would have preferred if the law included exceptions for rape and incest – which has been my consistent view – and such exceptions would have increased the chances of a review by the US Supreme Court. says Hutchinson in a statement.
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Supporters of self-determined abortion react strongly. The American Civil Liberties Union has already announced that it will take the law into the judiciary.
– This is politics at its worst. At a time when people need financial support and basic security, it is vicious, dangerous and downright unfair to remove access to abortion, says President of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Alexis McGill Johnson, according to the AP.
Arkansas already has some of the strictest abortion laws in the United States.
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