by ICE PAC Staff | Feb 26, 2013 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
Governor Mike Beebe today signed the “Pregnant Woman’s Protection Act” that gives mothers legal protections when they are forced to defend the lives of their unborn children. The bill, Arkansas Senate Bill 170, passed unanimously in the state senate...
by ICE PAC Staff | Feb 8, 2013 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said Thursday he’ll sign into law legislation prohibiting insurers from covering most abortions in an exchange created under the federal health care law, as lawmakers advanced a separate measure banning the procedure 12 weeks into a...
by ICE PAC Staff | Feb 7, 2013 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
North Dakota may be on the verge of becoming the first state in the union that protects human beings from the moment of conception after the Senate passed the state’s personhood amendment. Similar personhood amendments passed the House of Representatives in 2009...
by ICE PAC Staff | Feb 5, 2013 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, State Abortion Policy
The Arkansas House voted Monday to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape or incest, sending the proposal to a state Senate that approved more stringent restrictions last week. The House also voted to block insurers from covering...
by ICE PAC Staff | Feb 4, 2013 | Issues, News, News & Opinion, Ultrasound
Women in Tennessee soon may have to get an ultrasound before an abortion, under a bill filed in the state legislature. State Sen. Jim Tracy, R-Shelbyville, has filed a measure that would require women to undergo a “transabdominal ultrasound” and wait at...
