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Georgia Right to Life<\/a> is praising a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court while hoping for a personhood constitutional amendment in Georgia. Last week, the Alabama court ruled that both \u201cborn\u201d and \u201cpreborn\u201d children are protected under Alabama\u2019s \u201cchemical endangerment\u201d statute. Although the statute doesn\u2019t mention \u201cpreborn” children, the court ruled the \u201cplain meaning\u201d of the word \u201cchild\u201d includes both \u201cborn\u201d and \u201cpreborn\u201d children.<\/p>\n

\"law\"The case stemmed from an appeal in a case in which a woman admitted to smoking methamphetamine three days before her baby was born. The child was born at 25 weeks and died minutes later.<\/p>\n

According to Georgia Right to Life President Dan Becker, \u201cthis is the first time since Roe<\/em> was decided in 1973 that a court has granted personhood status to the ‘preborn.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Sixty-six percent of Republican primary voters expressed a desire to place a personhood amendment in front of all Georgia voters. In addition, 78 of the 90 pro-life candidates endorsed by Georgia Right to Life won their elections.<\/p>\n

The ballot measure can be placed before voters only by the state legislature. Becker expressed hope in the outcome, saying, \u201cI am greatly encouraged that Georgia, which has proven to be pro-life, will now grant the same protection to our innocent children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Georgia Right to Life<\/a> \u201cpromotes respect and effective legal protection for all innocent human life from its earliest biological beginning through natural death.\u00a0 GRTL is one of a number of organizations that have adopted Personhood as the most effective prolife strategy for the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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