“I’m disappointed we don’t have more buy in and more support from the people who it really impacts," Independent Sen. Jim Hendren, who nonetheless voted to advance the measure, said.
Arkansas lawmakers advance scaled-back hate crimes measure
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“In this bill, we’re going to tell a 12-year-old rape victim that because we believe so strongly in the right to life, she’s going to have to carry that baby to term regardless of the consequences it does to her or her family or her life," Sen. Jim Hendren, who left the Republican Party last week, said.
Arkansas Senate approves bill banning nearly all abortions
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