LITTLE ROCK - On June 24, 2025 marks the third anniversary of Supreme Court justices ripping away women’s recognized, fundamental right to make decisions about their own bodies and Arkansas’s most-extreme-in-the-nation trigger law taking effect. Dobbs v. Jackson paved the way for Trump and his Republican allies to launch attacks on women’s reproductive health and enact abortion bans nationwide. In Trump’s second term, reproductive health care is at even greater risk as Trump pushes his dangerous backdoor abortion ban through Congress. This further risks Arkansans access to care, even across state lines. 

On the third anniversary of the Dobbs ruling, the Arkansas Democratic Party’s Micah Wallace released the following statement:

“Three years ago today, the Supreme Court overturned the protections included in Roe v. Wade, and our outrageous and extreme trigger law made abortion illegal in nearly all circumstances, including cases of rape and incest. Republicans’ decades-long quest to rip away women’s freedom to access healthcare was finally realized: But are we really better off?

Arkansas ranks dead last in maternal mortality. Our child welfare rate is not much better. Still, Republicans have filed bills since Roe was overturned to further restrict women’s freedoms, including a dystopian bill to track fertility treatments, a bill to charge women who seek access to the abortion pill with murder, and a bill to show anti-abortion propaganda to fifth graders. And let’s not forget that our State Capitol will soon feature a Monument to the Unborn, being built for the sole purpose of shaming women.

Republicans are obsessed with controlling women’s bodies, and their priorities leave our bridges crumbling, our schools underserved, and our communities struggling. We’ve seen it across the country; women die because of these out-of-touch laws. And a majority of Arkansans support an exception for rape, incest, and fatal fetal abnormalities, at the very least.

Arkansas Republicans at every level are far more interested in maintaining our meaningless  “#1 Most Pro-Life State” ranking while suffering women die because of the extreme laws that they passed. Let’s be clear: right-wing politicians would rather let women die than recognize their right to make decisions about their bodies. And Arkansas women deserve better.”