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Georgia House Panel Approves Pro-Life ‘Heartbeat’ Bill
A Georgia House panel approved a bill on March 6 that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat was detected, advancing the controversial bill after hours of debate.
The bill, House Bill 481, also known as Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, will be considered for debate on the House floor and could pass through to the Senate as early as Thursday.
The bill says “Modern medical science … demonstrates that early infants in the womb are a class of living, distinct human beings that, among other individual human traits, have their own distinct blood types, organ systems, and unique fingerprints,” among other traits.
“Unborn children shall be worthy of recognition as natural persons under the laws of this State,” the legislation reads. Under the U.S. Constitution and Georgia law, no person “shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property except by due process of law” and “no person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws,” the House bill stated.
Current Georgia law allows abortions up to 20 weeks; if passed, the so-called heartbeat bill would ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat was detected, which typically happens in a women’s sixth week of pregnancy. Exceptions are included if not getting an abortion would pose substantial and irreversible physical harm to the prospective mother or in the case of rape or incest.
“I believe in the common sense of Georgians,” state Rep. Ed Setzler, a Republican and the bill’s sponsor, told the House panel before the bill passed, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “They recognize that science tells us a living, distinct whole human being with a heartbeat living in the womb is worthy of protection.”
“Life in the womb is sacred and worthy of full legal protections,” he added, according to CNN. “When there is a beating heart, that’s a human being worthy of protection.”
Witnesses included a woman who said her parents had been told to abort her because doctors thought she would be severely disabled and state Rep. Park Cannon, who said she got an abortion after being raped.
Cannon, a Democrat, said that abortion bans of any type are political and that she’s opposed to them.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/georgia-house-panel-approves-pro-life-heartbeat-bill_2829381.html