The State Senate voted 20 to 14 Tuesday to override Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of a bill that would establish the country's most stringent limits on abortion, banning the procedure after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
This would be among the shortest and most stringent limits of any state bill.
Three weeks ago, Arkansas lawmakers adopted what at the time was the country's most stringent abortion limit, also tied to detection of a fetal heartbeat and banning the procedure at 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Action on a bill imposing the most stringent abortion limit in the nation was delayed Wednesday after backers who had defended its constitutionality for almost a year asked for a number of last-minute language changes.
Little more than a week after Arkansas adopted the country's most stringent abortion limits, banning the procedure at 12 weeks of pregnancy, the North Dakota Legislature on Friday passed a more restrictive bill that would ban most abortions as early as 6 weeks into pregnancy.
About 56.19% of voters rejected Measure LV, which had the potential to levy some of the most stringent growth limits in the state.
The design of the TargetScan algorithm, considered to be amongst the most stringent methods, limits the numbers of in-silico predicted targets.
