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A group of women denied emergency healthcare are suing Arkansas, claiming the state's near-total abortion ban violates their constitutional rights to life and liberty.

Four women and a physician have launched a landmark legal challenge against the State of Arkansas, arguing its draconian abortion ban violates the state constitution’s guarantee of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The lawsuit, filed by the newly formed litigation group Amplify Legal, seeks to strike down the near-total ban that has been in place since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The plaintiffs describe a healthcare system in collapse, where doctors are too terrified of criminal prosecution to perform routine life-saving procedures on women suffering from miscarriages and non-viable pregnancies.
The emotional core of the lawsuit is the testimony of Emily Waldorf, a physical therapist who was left to languish in a hospital bed while miscarrying a wanted pregnancy. Despite the fetus being non-viable, hospital staff refused to induce labor because a faint heartbeat was still detectable. "I felt like a ticking time bomb," Waldorf recalls in the affidavit. "They told me to wait until I was sick enough to die before they could help me."
When Waldorf’s sister called Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office in desperation, a male official reportedly dismissed the plea, callously telling her to "find a lawyer." Now, she has done exactly that.
The suit argues that the Arkansas Constitution’s inherent rights clauses are broader than the federal protections removed by the Supreme Court. The plaintiffs contend:
This case is the first major offensive by Amplify Legal, the litigation arm of the advocacy group Abortion in America. Legal scholars view it as a critical test case for whether state constitutions can provide a bulwark against the rolling back of reproductive rights in the Deep South. For the women of Arkansas, however, it is not an abstract legal theory; it is a fight for their survival.
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