Georgia: One Step Closer to Outlawing Abortion
By Dionne Vann, executive director, NARAL Pro-Choice Georgia
You must be kidding me!
Not even a month after South Dakota voters repealed a ban on abortion, and voters across the country put more pro-choice voices in Congress, anti-choice legislator Rep. Bobby Franklin (HD 43) introduced a similar ban to outlaw abortion in Georgia. Can you believe it? A BAN THAT WOULD OUTLAW ABORTION!
With pre-filed HB1, Georgia’s anti-choice politicians are, once again, interfering in women’s personal, private decisions. This bill would make providing abortion care in the state of Georgia a felony, even to protect a woman’s health. What’s more, the punishment is LIFE IN PRISON or the DEATH PENALTY. This ban is not only dangerous, it’s unconstitutional.
What anti-choice legislators fail to realize is that Georgians are tired of government interference in Washington and at the state house. They’re also tired of hypocrisy. If the legislators were really serious about reducing the need for abortion, they would stop writing bills that harm women and their families and focus on ideas that help prevent unintended pregnancy.
Georgians are tired of politicians overstepping and interfering in personal, private decisions that should be between women, their doctors, their families, and their God.
We must prepare to fight back against this attack on the Roe v. Wade case, which saved many women from “back-alley abortions”. That’s why NARAL Pro-Choice Georgia is raising funds now to hire a full-time lobbyist to make sure Georgia’s pro-choice majority is represented in the state capitol.
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I have been a NARAL supporters for many years but I'm starting to loose the faith. Please, please, please, address the issues pointed out in this post: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_digbysblog_archive.html#116555917450492833
What is the rationalization?
The repeated use of "partial birth" and linking it with abortion is the reason we are not opposing this fervently. The media and right have it all wrong. There is no such term medically or scientifically. If we (NARAL) continue to argue about something that does not exist it negates our stance.
If you are pro-choice then you would have to understand that providing the truth and facts about contraception and abortioin is paramount; not negating a term that was made up to derail our efforts to keep safe and legal abortion available to ALL women regardless of ethnicity, sexual orientation, income level, etc.
As for the Fetal Pain legislation. Don't go off half cocked, ya know.
We have never opposed a women's right to know; we opposed fake clinics and the criminalization of women seeking contraception and abortion.