Rita Sklar, the executive director of the ACLU since 1992, has retired, the ACLU of Arkansas announced today. Holly Dickson, the legal director, has been appointed interim director.
A bill to ban a widely followed off-label use of a pill used to induce miscarriages is on the Senate committee calendar today, a good time to mention many other off-label drug uses that the Arkansas legislature is overlooked in its supposed zeal to protect women.
Rita Sklar, director of the ACLU in Arkansas, has distributed a statement today from the ACLU and other groups urging Gov. Asa Hutchinson to veto SB 202, otherwise shortly to take effect Tuesday without his signature. The bill prevents passage of laws to prohibit discrimination against gay people in employment, housing and public services.