Atlanta, Georgia, January 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Georgia House of Representatives has taken up the gauntlet to challenge the 34-year-old Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion with a new bill that establishes an unborn child as a human person at conception deserving full protection under the law with no exceptions.
House Bill 1 sponsored by Bobby Franklin with many other cosponsors, declares that “a fetus is a person for all purposes under the laws of this state from the moment of conception" and cites the decision of Roe v. Wade itself to justify its complete ban of abortion.
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The legislation continues: "Georgia Constitution, at Article I, Section I, Paragraph II, provides: 'Protection to person and property is the paramount duty of government and shall be impartial and complete. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws. Because a fetus is a person, constitutional protection attaches at the moment of conception."
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In the 1973 Roe decision, Justice Blackmun admitted that Roe would lose its legal justification if an unborn child were determined as a person deserving of rights guaranteed in the 14th Amendment. "[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a 'person' within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment."
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The bill has been greeted with enthusiasm from pro-life organizations. Rev. Flip Benham, Director of Operation Save America/Operation Rescue, described the measure as “the very best bill that any state has brought before its legislative body yet… it is an all out declaration that human life begins at conception and therefore is due protection under the color of Law.”
Copy of the law.
This is exactly the kind of law that is needed.
What pleases me about this bill is that it's not primarily about abortion, but rather that the unborn child is a person.
Finally, the pro-aborts will be forced to engage in that debate.
They hate that debate. They have established abortion rights with the public stance that the whole issue is ambiguous, therefore cannot be settled. However, the reality is their lack of willingness to public settle the issue the debate means that that they really believe the unborn child only attains personhood at birth-- which is the law of the land, both in the US and Canada.
Pro-lifers, we must pray. Do not neglect to pray for this.
