Human Life Amendment debated in Georgia
Ben Smith reports on the Atlanta J. Constitution (2.19.2008):
The discussion took place Monday at a four-hour Georgia House subcommittee hearing on House Resolution 536, the "Human Life Amendment."
The proposed amendment to the Georgia Constitution states that "the word ‘person’ applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, sex, health, function or condition of dependency, including unborn children at every state of their biological development, including fertilization." . . .
Georgia Right to Life is promoting the resolution, but the proposal is not universally endorsed by anti-abortion groups. The proposal is not endorsed by National Right to Life, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta opposes it.
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Notice the last paragraph:
Georgia Right to Life is promoting the resolution, but the proposal is not universally endorsed by anti-abortion groups. THE PROPOSAL IS NOT ENDORSED BY NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta opposes it.
The NRLC has a consistent record of being against Human Life Amendments, seeming content instead to advocate for the reversal of Roe v. Wade without going far enough to grant personhood to the unborn. This coupled with the NRLC’s refusal to endorse Gov. Huckabee this election year has led me to conclude that I will never support the NRLC financially.
Instead, my funds will be going to the American Right to Life, who call themselves “The Personhood Wing of the Pro-Life movement.”
Check out their website here: http://www.americanrighttolife.org/