In Arkansas, women will be obliged to request permission from a man to have an abortion

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In Arkansas, lawmakers have further restricted women's access to abortion by adopting a law that requires women to obtain permission from their partners for this procedure.

The recently adopted HB 1566 bill is a new provision in Arkansas Final Disposition Rights Act of 2009, which says that in connection with the death of a person, family members must agree on what to do with the body of the deceased. This means that both the mother and the father of the unborn fetus will have to agree on what to do with its remains, thereby requiring the woman to tell her partner what she plans to have an abortion.

This law may also apply to women who become pregnant after partner abuse, and to those who become pregnant after sexual violence. (For women under the age of 18, the decision about what to do with the remains of the fetus will be entrusted to the parents or guardians).

Experts say laws like this are a mean way for lawmakers to put forward an abortion program, without naming it that way.

“Some politicians have begun trying to make abortion functionally unavailable through insidious restrictions like this,” said a spokesperson for the nonprofit NARAL Pro-Choice America. “Their intention, of course, is to make abortion unavailable by any means necessary.”

This provision was made at a state legislative session in 2017 and entered into force at the end of this month, but the Civil Rights Organization (ACLU) filed a lawsuit.

The ACLU, in collaboration with the Center for Reproductive Rights, has filed a lawsuit against HB 1566 and hopes to freeze it before making a decision. The first hearing of the suit will take place on July 13.

“Every day, women in Arkansas and across the United States struggle to get the help they need as lawmakers impose new ways to close clinics and make abortion unaffordable,” ACLU members said in a statement. “We will fight against politicians who not only seek to shame, punish or burden women for making these decisions, but also try to remove the inaccessibility.”

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