Arkansas Legislature Approves Bill for ‘Monument to the Unborn’

The Arkansas Legislature sent a bill to the desk of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders that would authorize a “monument to the unborn” on the grounds of the state Capitol.
The Republican-led state House approved Senate Bill 307, known as the “Monument to Unborn Children Act,” by a vote of 60–19 on March 14. The monument would mark the number of abortions performed in Arkansas before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
The memorial would be built to “remember those children we were not able to protect, and we will not be able to forget,” said Republican state Rep. Mary Bentley, the bill’s House sponsor….}