The Restore Roe Act dies
In 2025, the Arkansas House introduced HB1011, the “Restore Roe Act”, aimed at “protect[ing] a woman’s right to obtain abortion services up to the point of fetal viability, as provided for in the United States Constitution, according to the United States Supreme Court in the 1971 decision Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 162 (1973), with limited exceptions following fetal viability for the health or life of the mother or in case of rape or incest perpetrated on a minor.” This bill would have repealed sections of the code requiring minors to obtain parental consent for an abortion, therefore negating the bypass of parental consent procedures and the associated right to counsel for minors in such matters.
The bill died in the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor.
Bill Status: Dead
Last action (on 05/05/2025): Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment.
