{"id":223749,"date":"2020-05-15T14:45:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=223749"},"modified":"2020-05-15T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:00:10","slug":"georgia-governor-kemp-excludes-abortionists-legal-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/georgia-governor-kemp-excludes-abortionists-legal-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia’s Governor Kemp excludes abortionists from legal protections during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has extended an executive order which protects Georgia’s hospitals and medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic by limiting legal liability. He specifically excluded abortionists from the protections, according to the Times Free Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It should come as no surprise that elective abortions are not emergency management activities,” Kemp spokeswoman Candice Broce said. “Abortion providers are undeserving of enhanced liability protections because they are doing nothing to fight COVID-19 in Georgia.”<\/p>\n

The order, signed by Kemp on Tuesday, names hospital and front-line medical personnel as “auxiliary emergency management workers” and allows them an extra level of protection against personal injury lawsuits. It is an extension of the order he first signed in April, however this time, he announced that abortionists will not receive that protection.<\/p>\n

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Pro-life organizations, including the Family Policy Alliance of Georgia, applauded Kemp’s actions. “We will protect the innocent and defend those who use medicine to save and to heal,” said the Family Policy Alliance’s Cole Muzio. He said that legal protections in such a health crisis should not be given to abortionists “who willfully ignore science and decency in order to promote a barbaric ideology.”<\/p>\n