Arkansas on Wednesday adopted what is by far the nation's most restrictive ban on abortion -- at 12 weeks of pregnancy, when a fetal heartbeat can typically be detected by abdominal ultrasound. The law, the sharpest challenge yet to Roe v. Wade, was passed by the newly Republican-controlled legislature over the veto of Gov. Mike Beebe, a Democrat, who called it "blatantly unconstitutional." The state Senate voted Tuesday to override his veto, and the House followed suit Wednesday, with several Democrats joining the Republican majority.
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