Lt. Gov. Leslie Rutledge (R-AR):
Well, it's certainly a disappointing decision by the Supreme Court.
But, in Arkansas, no, they cannot access to this abortion — abortion-by-mail drug that the FDA had approved long ago. And so, once again, this is a point that, in Arkansas, women, unless it is absolutely to save the life of mother, we have outlawed abortion. That law was in place. It was a trigger law.
Once the U.S. Supreme Court made the decision in Dobbs last June, as attorney general, last June, I certified that law that the Supreme Court had, in fact, overturned Roe v. Wade. And our trigger law, Act 180, went into effect outlawing abortions in Arkansas. We have saved countless lives in the last year.
I'm encouraged. And I hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will not allow the FDA to have an overreaching impact and be able to essentially override states such as Arkansas, who have made the decision to outlaw abortion.
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