Fri Nov 4, 2022 – 8:27 pm EDT
ATLANTA (LifeSiteNews) – A coalition of Georgia pro-life organizations presented Republican Gov. Brian Kemp a petition with 4,000 signatures asking him to call a special session of the legislature to amend the state constitution to recognize the personhood of unborn babies.
The Georgians Against Abortion’s petition was first announced in June by Georgia Right to Life (GRTL), days after the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion. According to the petition, Article I, Section I of the Georgia Constitution would be amended to include the phrase “This state shall recognize the paramount right to life of all human beings as persons at any stage of development from fertilization to natural death.”
The petition also stresses that Republican primary voters in 2012 voted 66% in favor of an amendment to the Georgia Constitution granting a “paramount right to life” for all human life from conception to natural death, and that there is no guarantee of pro-life electoral victories in this year’s midterm elections.
In July, a federal court allowed Georgia’s heartbeat law, the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, to go
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