Page:Arkansas Women's Political Caucus v. Riviere.pdf/2

464 and popular names of proposed constitutional amendments are (1) intelligible, (2) honest, and (3) impartial.
 * 1) C C.—The requirements for the popular name of a proposed constitutional amendment are not as stringent as those for the ballot title; however, popular ballot names which contain catch phrases or slogans that tend to mislead or give partisan coloring to the merit of a proposal will be rejected.
 * 2) C—"U C A"—.—The popular ballot name, "The Unborn Child Amendment" is misleading.
 * 3) C—"U C A"—.—Since there are three schools of thought on the issue of when life begins, i.e., at conception, upon live birth, or at the point upon which the fetus becomes viable, and since the Unborn Child Amendment Committee believes that life begins at conception, the ballot name "unborn child," standing alone, would tend to mislead those voters who follow an alternate school of thought and do not think of fetuses of certain gestational ages as unborn children.
 * 4) C—"U C A"—.—The enactment of the proposed Unborn Child Amendment would immediately prohibit the use of public funds for abortion, including a female impregnated by rape or incest, unless the life of the mother were in danger, and would empower the General Assembly to prohibit abortion under any circumstances to the extent permitted under the United States Constitution, yet, the popular name makes no reference to this subject; the popular name contains only the inviting catch words "unborn child," which gives the voters only the impression the proponents of the amendment want them to have, and is a clear-cut example of the partisan coloring of ballots which the Arkansas Supreme Court has uniformly condemned in its decisions holding that a ballot name must be fair and impartial.
 * 5) E C