{"id":327529,"date":"2025-03-10T14:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=327529"},"modified":"2025-03-10T08:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:41:49","slug":"georgia-legislature-bill-killing-preborn-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/georgia-legislature-bill-killing-preborn-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia legislature introduces bill to make killing preborn children a ‘right’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Attempts are being made to end Georgia’s protections for preborn babies, including a lawsuit that aims to overturn the pro-life law and a new legislative effort to make abortion a state constitutional right. Among those fighting to see pro-life protections lifted are mothers who tragically lost their children yet are exploiting their tragedies as reasons to allow any<\/em> preborn child to be targeted for abortion.<\/p>\n

Georgia’s Life Act protects preborn babies from abortion once a heartbeat is detectable (at about six weeks, though the heart begins beating and pumping blood<\/a> about 22 days post-fertilization). However, the law allows<\/em>\u00a0induced abortion at any<\/em> point in pregnancy in cases of medical emergency<\/em> \u2014 meaning that if a pregnant woman is facing a medical crisis, doctors have the legal right to directly and intentionally kill her baby. Georgia defines<\/a> \u201cmedical emergency\u201d during pregnancy as \u201ca condition in which an abortion is necessary in order to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman.\u201d The law clearly states that it is the \u201cphysician\u201d who \u201cdetermines, in reasonable medical judgment\u201d whether a woman\u2019s health concern is an emergency.<\/p>\n

In addition, while there is a 24-hour waiting period for an abortion in Georgia \u2014 that law does not apply in an emergency<\/em>.<\/p>\n

New legislation<\/strong><\/p>\n

On January 30, pro-abortion senators in Georgia introduced The Right to Reproductive Freedom<\/a> Act, which “[p]roposes an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide that every individual has a fundamental right to reproductive freedom …” through fetal viability (which is an entirely subjective<\/a> standard). It notes, however, that “the state may regulate the provision of abortion care after fetal viability provided that in no circumstance shall the state prohibit an abortion that, in the professional judgement of an attending health care professional, is medically indicated to protect the life or physical or mental health<\/strong> of the pregnant individual” (emphasis added).<\/p>\n

In other words, up until 40 weeks of pregnancy, if an abortionist determines an abortion would protect the mother’s health, including “mental health” (an extremely broad loophole), she can legally have her baby killed \u2014 tearing or suctioning the child apart, dismembering him or her, or lethally injecting his or her heart.<\/p>\n