Rutledge presented Arkansas Right to Life award

Rutledge presented Arkansas Right to Life award

AG recognized for efforts on behalf of unborn children

Arkansas Attorney General’s Office

LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge was presented with the Arkansas Right To Life Mary Rose Doe Award during a reception in Little Rock Tuesday evening.

The award is given to a recipient who has gone the extra mile in their work and efforts on behalf of unborn children.

The award is named after a baby that was legally aborted and tossed into a drainage ditch in Little Rock in 1985.

“It is an amazing honor to receive this recognition from Arkansas Right to Life and for it to be presented by National Right to Life Committee President Carol Tobias,” said Attorney General Rutledge. “I am proud of the work my office has done to protect the precious lives of unborn children. They do not have a voice, and I will never stop advocating for them.'

“We are very pleased and honored to recognize Attorney General Leslie Rutledge,” said Arkansas Right to Life Executive Director Rose Mimms. “Attorney General Rutledge has left no stone unturned in championing Arkansas’s laws, and we are proud to call her our friend.”

Rutledge defended the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act and took the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to convince the Court to reconsider the decisions they made in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. While the Court did not take the case, the State did get an opinion from the 8th Circuit that said the viability rule in Roe and Casey should be overturned. Rutledge's work also includes fighting for the health and safety of women. Rutledge is currently defending a law, the Abortion Inducing Drug Safety Act, which requires that: (1) abortion facilities contract with a doctor who has admitting privileges and who agrees to provide continuity of patient care and (2) that abortion facilities engage in certain common sense follow up safety precautions after providing an abortion.

Rutledge has also defended Governor Hutchinson's decision to terminate Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program after videos revealed last year that Planned Parenthood was likely violating the law and medical ethics in the manner in which they were providing abortion services.

From Judd Deere