Arkansas Pushes Ahead With Anti-Abortion Memorial at Capitol

The Arkansas House on Tuesday passed a bill to build a monument marking the number of abortions carried out in the state before the end of . The proposal to create a so-called monument to the unborn near the state Capitol was approved in a 60-19 vote. The memorial, which would commemorate “unborn children aborted during the era of ,” was opposed by Republican Rep. Jeremiah Moore on the grounds that it would represent a “poke in the eye to all those who do not share our beliefs.” “It is...