The Arkansas Senate approved a bill Monday that would ban abortions at 18 weeks, making it one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation.
After an amendment last week to add exemptions for rape and incest, the Senate voted 28-6 in favor of the measure, called The Cherish Act. It now goes back to the House for a vote, and then to the governor who is expected to sign it.
Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson signed a law last month that would be triggered immediately if the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and would immediately ban almost all abortions in the state.
