
Pro-life and pro-choice activists at National March for Life rally, Washington.
The new law, Act 45 - the Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act, will also allow husbands to sue doctors who carry out abortions for civil damages, as well as block terminations using injunctions.
Parents and legal guardians would also be able to sue to prevent minors from having abortions, raising concerns for victims of sexual abuse and incest.
The pro-life Act 45 was sped through in only two months by the Republican-led state government.
It would also see dilation and evacuation (D&E) terminations, the safest and most common form of second trimester abortions, become a felony with offenders facing six years in prison or a $10,000 fine.
The state of Arkansas carried out more than 680 D&E procedures in 2015.
The bill's co-sponsor, Andy Mayberry, a father of four girls, is the president of Arkansas Right to Life and member of the Missionary Baptist church.














Comment: What's barbaric is saying that a man can rape a woman and legally force her to have his baby. No civil society should embrace such a backwards policy.