Arkansas abortion case could be revived due to recent state Supreme Court ruling

A circuit judge last month dismissed the first legal challenge to Arkansas’ abortion ban, but the case could be revived due to a recent state Supreme Court ruling on how such lawsuits are handled.

Pulaski County Judge Cara Connors is considering whether to reverse her decision last month dismissing the lawsuit filed by six women and an obstetrician-gynecologist challenging Arkansas’ near-total abortion ban.

Connors filed an order to dismiss the case on April 29, citing a 2025 state law removing county courts’ authority to hear certain constitutional challenges.

But her ruling was issued the morning of April 30, shortly after the Arkansas Supreme Court declared that law, Act 975, unconstitutional.



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