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Termination of Rapist’s Parental Rights (Raffensperger)

HB 713 authored by Representative Brad Raffensperger, allows a woman to prevent her rapist from legitimating her child if the child was conceived during the assault. Often times, rapists will file for parental rights of the child conceived as a result of rape and use the case to force a woman to drop her rape charges against him. This bill would free women from the grip of their assaulter and help keep children safe from predators. Georgia Right to Life supports HB 713. To read HB 713 in its...

Abortion Statistic Reporting Bill

The Abortion Statistic Reporting Bill (HB 555) was filed during the 2015 Legislative Session in an effort to increase the reporting of abortions and juveniles seeking court orders to obtain abortion without parental notification from the Department of Public Health and the Administrative Office of Courts. HB 555 was gutted in House committee but was repaired in the Senate. GRTL supported HB 555 as passed by the Senate and monitored its final House version. To read HB 555 in its entirety, click...

Aborted Fetal Tissue Sales

HB 762, authored by Representative Wendell Willard, would prevent abortionists from selling aborted fetal tissue. The bill, however, does not prohibit procurement companies to sell aborted baby body parts. The procurement companies are responsible for obtaining, storing, and transporting aborted baby parts. That means that babies can be killed for money in abortion, then donated to a third-party company who will then make money by selling the baby's body parts to biotech companies, research...

Abortion Myths

MYTH: Abortion is only legal through the first trimester. FACT: Due to the radical scope of the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy. FACT: More than 152,000 abortions take place every year in the United States during or after the 13th week of pregnancy. MYTH: Women obtain abortions only in rare and extreme cases. FACT: In the U.S. alone, more than 1.2 million abortions were performed in 2008. FACT: Rape and...

When Love Wins…

When Janet Sheikhan first discovered she was pregnant, she and her husband were thrilled. But then, Janet received terrible news: A test showed the baby was severely deformed. On the advice of her doctor, Janet regretfully decided to have an abortion. But when she asked to see her tiny aborted child, Janet was shocked to discover it was a perfectly-formed baby boy. Later she read the autopsy report, which confirmed the baby had not been deformed but was perfectly healthy.

Abortion in the Black Community

Black babies are aborted up to 6 times the rate of the majority population while the NAACP, the Urban League and the Congressional Black Caucus enable Planned Parenthood to destroy beautiful possibility. Learn more about the horrendous impact of abortion on the African American community and the racist roots of America's largest abortion provider - Planned Parenthood.

Post Abortion Syndrome

Post Abortion Stress Syndrome (PAS) affects everyone and is a form of post-traumatic stress disorder. The process of making an abortion choice, experiencing the procedure and living with the grief, pain and regret is certainly, at it’s very core, traumatic. As with any trauma, individuals often try to “forget” the ordeal and deny or ignore any pain that may result.

Sex Selection Abortion

Prenatal discrimination based on gender typically target girls. Sex selection abortion is used to prevent the birth of a child of an undesired sex: abortion is chosen solely on the basis of the unborn baby's gender. The victims of these abortions are overwhelmingly female. Sex-selection abortion was once thought confined to certain parts of Asia. It has now spread to other continents and is now practiced here in the United States of America and even in Georgia. No nation committed to...