Proposed abortion amendment up for attorney general’s consideration again in effort to put...

A group of Arkansans is continuing its fight with a revised constitutional amendment to put the issue of abortion access into the hands of voters.

For AR People filed its second version of the proposal Monday to Attorney General Tim Griffin. Griffin rejected the first proposal in late November, finding fault with the language and technical details of the ballot proposal, which backers said would make reproductive health decisions private up to the 18th week of pregnancy part of the state constitution.

Arkansas attorney general rejects ballot language for abortion access constitutional amendment
The updated proposal is said to more clearly define the effort to provide access to abortions up to the 18-week mark of pregnancy. It would also allow for abortions in cases of rape, incest, to protect the mother’s life or physical health, or in cases of fatal fetal anomaly, which is defined as a medical condition diagnosed before birth that, in the physician’s good faith medical judgment, will lead to fetal or neonatal death for which life-saving medical intervention would be futile.