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Arkansans React To 12-Week Abortion Vote


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Reported by: Hubert Tate
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Updated: 3/06 11:41 pm Published: 3/06 9:42 pm
LITTLE ROCK, AR -- Arkansans are responding to the new law banning abortions at 12 weeks. Responses are mixed.

Kandi Cox knows what having an abortion is like. It's something she says she regrets to this day.

"This is the time of year I chose to have an abortion," said Cox.

But not every woman agrees with Cox.

Jan Gerber also had an abortion and says she has no regrets about her abortion.

"I do not," said Gerber.

Their experiences lead them to different viewpoints on the state legislature rejecting Governor Beebe's veto of the 12-week abortion ban.

"This is a day we can stand and say that we in the state of Arkansas, we stand for life," said Cox.

Lawmakers now gear up for a legal battle over the issue, which both Cox and Gerber expected.

"I stand for choice. I stand for the little girl who feels her voice has been taken away from her. I'm 60 and I'm older and I want to say to that little girl, you do have a choice," said  Gerber.
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roberBware - 3/9/2013 8:26 PM
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Some Women Have 20 Kids, Some Women are Surrogate Mothers, Doctors take Hippicratic oat h,We Should Focus on Finding adoption shortcuts

LifeIsPrecious - 3/8/2013 12:02 AM
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There are botched abortions all the time...just read the papers or watch the nightly news. This was with abortion being legal! I love how those defending abortion weren't aborted themselves! Yes, self centered Americans think they shouldn't be inconvenienced and yet if you don't want to get pregnant, either abstain from sex or use protection. Even a baby conceived in rape deserves to live and be adopted out if the mother can't cope with raising it herself (totally understandable). The choice women have in general is not to have unprotected sex. Killing the baby is killing another human, not just tissue. Most pro-abortionists are completely against aborting or euthanizing animals and get all up in arms to "save the whales". Whales, dolphins, pups and kits aren't people but they get more protection...why is that?

JoeBub - 3/7/2013 11:16 AM
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The State of Arkasas will spend a huge amount of money trying to defend this un-constitutional law that will be overturned by the Supreme court Why do we voters elect such nitwits? Their ignorance is showing

eastark - 3/7/2013 10:42 AM
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This bunch of idiots in the capitol are wasting our money. If they don't want an abortion don't get one. Several hundred thousand to the lawyers gone.

thaone - 3/7/2013 9:27 AM
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THESE PEOPLE SAY OBAMA DESTOYING THE CONSTITUTION ---- GET OUT PEOPLE LIVES AND COME UP WITH A SOLUTION TO RAISE MINIMUM WAGE---AND A PLAN FOR JOBS QUIT WAISTING TIME AND MY TAX DOLLARS--- STOP TRYING TO HINDER WOMEN---Under current law, both Roe V. Wade and the updating of Roe in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, this bill is clearly unconstitutional," said UALR Bowen School of Law Dean Dr. John DiPippa.

cindi222 - 3/7/2013 9:17 AM
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It doesn't matter what anyone thinks. What matters is that it is firm law. This one will get thrown out before it ever takes affect. There was finally a ruling on the 20 week bans yesterday. They are also unconstitutional. You cannot override a USSC ruling with a state law. If a politician tells you they will stop abortion in order to get your vote, they are flat out lying to you hoping you are too stupid to know better. Quit falling for it.

mel0321 - 3/7/2013 9:17 AM
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to use rape as an excuse for an abortion is still not an viable argument. the Morning After Pill is readily available. it is not a pill that aborts, but rather prevents. a woman does not get pregnant during sex. it takes a couple days, which is why the MAP only works in the very short time frame.

mel0321 - 3/7/2013 9:10 AM
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Fact: when 911 is called and an ambulance responds the first thing they check on the person is vitals - aka:heartbeat. Fact: when science needs to determine the difference between two individuals they run a DNA test. Conclusion from these facts: the individual inside the womb of another individual is still an individual - they will have an heartbeat detectable at an very early stage. the individual inside the adult individual will have their own DNA, with only 1/2 shared with the carrier and the other 1/2 of the DNA shared with the donor/father. so to say that it is the woman's choice to do with her own body is redundant. and to justify it with a woman 'back alley abortion' screw up is asinine. lets say I wanted to burn my car - it is my car and I have every right to burn it, but another person had their belongings in it. in any court of law I would be in the wrong and would have to pay in retribution to the owner of the property the full value. just because I chose to burn my property did not give me the right to destroy another's property. Science can clearly prove that the 'fetus' has its own DNA, its own 'life' heartbeat, but just not its own voice. oh and to say that the fetus is not viable outside the womb so it will not make it, is just... well, stupid. if a child is born and is already 3 months old, it is still not able to sustain itself with adult intervention. it would probably only live a couple days. the ONLY time abortion should be an option is if it putting the mother at jeopardy. or in cases where it is a multiple pregnancy and one fetus is endangering the other(s).

mypeaceofmind - 3/7/2013 8:58 AM
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Get your wire hangers ready ladies.

Ladymerle - 3/7/2013 7:55 AM
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The choice the woman has is to use protection or not do the "deed" if she does not want a child. Arkansas considers that a fetus is consider a child at 12 weeks so why should we allow someone to abort that child after 12 weeks?!?! That should be considered murder! Taking a life of an innocent child is wrong period. The woman had the choice before it was conceived! Maybe this is considered progression and not regression....making things right that were decided wrong years ago. Good grief!
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