Atlanta (AP)-an amount of protesters for abortions and anti-abortions flooded a windowless hallway in Georgia Capitol with chants and signs on Wednesday when the legislator held a hearing to a legislation that would ban almost all abortions.
Although the legislative template will not go anywhere this year because a period of both chambers has expired for the exam, the hearing of the Republican leadership of the house gave anti-abortive activists the opportunity to comment on a problem and prefer to be their voters.
Dozens of freighted and screamed words of support or contempt for the proposal. The audience tried to push themselves into the listening room when the deputies of the sheriff guard the area. A man raised his voice over the noise and said: “I am so grateful that my mother gave me life” and did not “sacrifice” her children.
Every time someone left the room after the certificate, they were denied by those on their side of the bill.
“Tens of thousands of babies that were made according to the image of God are murdered every year in our state, all within the borders of the current law,” said Bill Sponsor Rep. Emory Dunahoo, a Gillsville Republican. “This law only ensures that the same laws that protect people’s lives protect the lives of people from birth equally.”
The legislation would make most abortions a crime from the point of fertilization, at this point one would be seen as a person. This would expand the broad “personality” of Georgia, which gives unborn children rights such as tax relief and support for children. At least five countries have personality laws.
Georgia already prohibits abortions after they have found a “detectable human heartbeat” that can already happen six weeks in pregnancy if many women still don’t know that they are pregnant. Nevertheless, a flood of religious leaders said that the measure does not go far enough.
However, some religious anti-abdominal people were among the opponents of the law and said that criminalization is going too far.
Critics of the measure said that they would conclude women during the life-saving care during birth complications and in vitro fertilization from life-saving care. Many commented on the fact that women with miscarriages or unsafe health complications during birth would not get the care they need.
MP Shea Roberts, a Democrat in Atlanta, told about her own experience to get an abortion in order to save her life.
“It was one of the most devastating times in my life, and the doctors told me that my child’s dream would either die outside of my body in me or within minutes and would suffer,” said Roberts.
The legislation would grant some exceptions, even in cases in which a “spontaneous miscarriage” and procedures for rescue the life of a mother are carried out if they are accompanied by reasonable steps to save the life of their unborn child. “
However, the opponents say that doctors would be too frightened before the proposal to ensure this care themselves if necessary. They pointed out to the case – reported by Investigative Journalism -Outlet Prublica – of two women who died after taking abortion pills to Georgia’s abortion law.
The doctors also found that Georgia already has some of the country’s highest maternity rates, especially for black women. The legislature should concentrate on helping them get more care, the opponents said.
The doctors also said that the legislation prepares the stage for the criminalization of the in -vitro fertilization and that the fertility clinics would force to close. The invoice takes place about a month after the house in Georgia has passed an invoice with cross -party support in order to protect the right to in -vitro fertilization in the state. This measure was sponsored by the Republican Republican of Statesboro, Lehman Franklin, whose wife IVF used to imagine.
Despite the concerns of several doctors, Dunahoo replied that the invoice would not affect access to the in -vitro fertilization.
Dr. Karenne Fru, which runs a fertility clinic that provides industrial fertilization, said the bill would make it unemployed.
“My whole life does God’s work. He said, go extra and professional,” said Fru and her voice trembled. “I do that. Please let me do it. I can’t go to prison because I want to help people become parents.”
