Asa Hutchinson
Hutchinson also said he wouldn’t have accepted a private donation to pay for a National Guard deployment, adding that the troops should be paid from the state budget.
“You want to keep talking or do you want me to answer the question?!” Hutchinson declared at one point.
Vetoing HB 1570, Asa Hutchinson said, “The state should not presume to jump into the middle of every medical, human, and ethical issue. This is...a vast government overreach.”
The Arkansas governor confirmed on CNN that he only signed his bill because he hopes it leads to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson admits that the new anti-abortion law isn’t even written to be passed. It’s written so the new super-Trumpy Supreme Court can shoot Roe down with it.
“He should not define our future,” Hutchinson concluded. “We've got to define it for ourself and that has to be based upon the principles that gave us the strength in America.”