The American Civil Liberties Union is planning lawsuits against two recent laws passed by Arkansas legislators banning abortions and gender affirming medical procedures, while other laws could draw legal challenges from that group and others.
The ACLU will sue in Arkansas’ Eastern District U.S. District Court to block those two laws, said Holly Dickson, ACLU executive director.
“We’ll be filing before the bills go into effect asking that those laws never go into effect,” she said.
Dickson said Little Rock Family Practice Clinic, an abortion provider, will be a plaintiff in the lawsuit against Act 309, which bans almost all abortions except those necessary to save the life of the mother. Plaintiffs for the lawsuit against Act 626, the Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act, will include affected families whose children will not be able to receive gender transition treatments as a result of that law.