The pro-life group Americans United for Life has released its annual “Life List” revealing its full rankings of every U.S. state from most to least pro-life.
The group said in a press release that over the course of 2023, U.S. states “have been very active in considering life-related policy” with both pro-life and pro-abortion legislation.
“Thanks to the groundwork state legislatures laid to prepare for the fall of [Roe v. Wade] and their response thereafter, hundreds of thousands of innocent preborn lives will be saved in the coming years,” the group said. “With the freedom to defend life restored, state lawmakers now pass life-affirming laws with confidence to protect women, preborn children, and families.”
AUL’s list showed Arkansas as the most pro-life state in the country. This was the state’s fourth year claiming that title, AUL said, with Arkansas holding the spot due to its having “maintained existing protections for life and enacted an additional nine life-protecting laws.”
Other southern states such as Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana were among the top 10. Among all states on the list, North Carolina jumped the most, according to AUL, after state lawmakers in May overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of pro-life legislation and banned most abortions after 12 weeks.
South Dakota, which ranks ninth on the group’s list, “is on track to see a year of zero abortions in the state,” AUL said. Idaho and Arizona also ranked in the top 10.
The group acknowledged that some states have seen “strong headwinds” of the pro-abortion movement, including Ohio, where voters in November overwhelmingly approved a ballot referendum that added a new right to “reproductive freedom,” including abortion and contraception, to the state constitution.
The group further pointed to efforts in Arizona to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, the outcome of which AUL acknowledged “could change the pro-life landscape” as well as the rankings of the Life List itself next year.
Among the lowest-ranking states were Illinois, California, and New York. Vermont ranked at the bottom of the list….
“This time last year, 13 states were abortion-free,” the group said. “Today, there are now 23 states that limit abortion at 12 weeks or earlier.”
Much of U.S. abortion law remains in flux. The Supreme Court in December said it would once again consider a high-stakes abortion pill case, one that could potentially reinstate safeguards that would prohibit sending the deadly drugs by mail.
Though many states have increased protections for unborn children, several U.S. states will have abortion on the ballot in 2024, with abortion activists mounting efforts to craft abortion rights and add them to state codes and constitutions.
Nearly a dozen states are considering such measures as the new year looms, including Maryland, Colorado, and Missouri.
From Catholic News Agency
God bless Arkansas.
Also one of the poorest.
So? Your point?
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, is the youngest governor in the whole country, and the first woman governor of Arkansas. She is a conservative Republican, and a former press secretary in the White House, for former Pres. Donald Trump. She is a Southern Baptist, a very committed Evangelical Christian, and her husband is Catholic. Gov. Huckabee is deeply committed to Christian moral beliefs of pro life and pro family, and good, solid Christian family values. She has publicly stated that you cannot separate faith and work– your faith defines you. She says that she takes her religious faith to work each day. She carries a popular devotional book with her– “Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence.” She has been seen reading from this book, before giving press conferences, speeches, and on other occasions. I enjoy watching her father, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, on his popular TBN show, “Huckabee.” He promotes good Christian beliefs and family values, with guest celebrities and political leaders who are committed Christians, working to end the Death Culture in America– like Kirk Cameron, Riley Gaines, and a great many others.
What with the ending of work permits for underage youth?
It is a burden to parents to have to get a work permit for your 14 or 15 year old?
Really?
In March of 2023, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law, a bill to create a monument to honor all the unborn who were victims of abortion, at the Arkansas State Capital. That is exactly what we need, ìn our State Capital, in Sacramento.
Oh– in my comment of Jan. 7 at 9:17pm, I misspelled the word “capitol,” in typing “State Capitol!”
waste of taxpayer money
Publicly-funded abortions are a waste of taxpayer money.
No. Americans need to publicly honor unborn, tragically aborted– murdered — babies. This is a national tragedy. A horror, before Almighty God. What a horrific thing it is, to read, after babies are cruelly murdered– of their poor little bodies being hacked up, and their body parts sold, for profit, by Planned Parenthood and other baby murder facilities. This is supposed to be illegal. Legalized abortion in today’s sinful, post-1960s Death Culture era, has been a veritable Holocaust. We need a deeply moving monument to honor this horrific tragedy, just like monuments were created to honor the poor Jewish people, tragically tortured and murdered by Hitler, in the evil WWII Holocaust. Abortion needs to be ended forever, in our country.