Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 68: ABORTION

Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete constitutional appendix of the Secretary of State’s 2025 Election Laws and Constitution compilation: its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context. Later amendments have not been independently verified.

Amendment 68

AMEND. 68. ABORTION
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment, effective Decem-
ber 8, 1988, was proposed by initiative petition and ad-
opted at the 1988, general election by a vote of 398,107 for
and 368,117 against.
Enforcement of Amendment 68 is enjoined to the extent
it prohibits the use of state funds to pay for abortions for
Medicaid-eligible victims of rape or incest, for so long as
federal law mandates Medicaid funding for abortions for
Medicaid-eligible victims of rape or incest.
§ 1. Public funding.
No public funds will be used to pay for any abortion, except to save the mother’s life.
§ 2. Public policy.
The policy of Arkansas is to protect the life of every unborn child from conception until birth,
to the extent permitted by the Federal Constitution.
§ 3. Effect of amendment.
This amendment will not affect contraceptives or require an appropriation of public funds.