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Arkansas signs abortion ban into law, provoking legal showdown

Updated: March 10, 2021 at 12:57 pm EST  See Comments

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LITTLE ROCK, March 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed into law Tuesday making abortion illegal in Arkansas for any reason except to save a mother’s life, although lawsuits by the abortion lobby will prevent it from going into effect.

Hutchinson had previously expressed some hesitancy over the ban’s lack of an exception for abortions sought due to rape or incest, but CBS News reports he signed it anyway due to its “overwhelming legislative support and my sincere and long-held pro-life convictions.”

The new law “is in contradiction of binding precedents of the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is the intent of the legislation to set the stage for the Supreme Court overturning current case law,” the governor said. “I would have preferred the legislation to include the exceptions for rape and incest, which has been my consistent view, and such exceptions would increase the chances for a review by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Broad abortion bans, which conflict with the Supreme Court’s “fetal viability” threshold, are generally not enacted with the expectation that they will take effect in the

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