ARTL Launches "Decline To Sign" Campaign

      Arkansas Right to Life (ARTL) has announced its Decline to Sign campaign to defeat the Arkansas Abortion Amendment proposal that would legalize abortion by writing it into the Arkansas Constitution.

      “ARTL is currently engaged in the toughest battle yet for pregnant mothers and the lives of our unborn children in Arkansas. In November, a group calling themselves For AR People formed a ballot question committee, Arkansans for Limited Government,” said Rose Mimms, executive director of Arkansas Right to Life.

      On Jan. 23, the Arkansas Abortion Amendment (AAA) ballot measure that would allow abortion for any reason in the state, which, for the last 18 months, has had virtually no legal abortions, was approved by Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin.

      “Besides cruelly allowing babies to be aborted up to the moment of birth, this extreme amendment would give abortionists access to minor girls without their parents’ knowledge and remove laws protecting women from injury, coercion and death from abortionists.

      “Just two days before, at the March for Life, ARTL announced our Decline to Sign Campaign to ask all Arkansans unwilling to sign a death warrant on innocent unborn children to politely Decline to Sign when approached by canvassers.

      “If approved, the Arkansas Abortion Amendment will enshrine abortion in Arkansas’ Constitution and gut Amendment 68, which says it’s the policy of the state of Arkansas to protect unborn babies from conception until birth,” said Mimms. She urges all Arkansans to decline signing petitions as they are being circulated across the state in the coming months.

      “The women of our state and the babies they carry deserve better than to have our state constitution altered for the sake of the profit-driven abortion industry. ARTL urges all the people of our state to decline signing petitions as they are being circulated in the coming months,” Mimms concluded.

      For more information on Arkansas Right to Life’s “Decline to Sign” campaign, visit artl.org/decline-to-sign-campaign.

         Arkansas Right to Life is the state affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee, the oldest and largest pro-life organization. For more information, visit artl.org.