Arkansas Attorney General Rejects Proposed Abortion Amendment

The proposed amendment, intended to repeal the state's abortion ban, was deemed ambiguous and misleading by Attorney General Tim Griffin, halting the signature collection process for the 2024 ballot.

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin rejected the language of a proposed ballot amendment that would repeal the state’s abortion ban, arguing that it contains ambiguities and is misleading.
The proposed amendment, titled the Arkansas Reproductive Healthcare Amendment, would prohibit the state from restricting abortions within 18 weeks of conception and in cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal anomaly, or if necessary to protect the health or life of the pregnant woman.
Griffin's rejection prevents the group Arkansans for Limited Government from collecting signatures to qualify the proposed constitutional amendment for the 2024 ballot.
Arkansans for Limited Government, which drafted the amendment, must now revise and resubmit it. They are required to submit 90,704 registered voters’ signatures by July 5, 2024, to get the amendment on the ballot.
Arkansas law currently prohibits all abortions except in life-threatening emergencies, a law that went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.