Below are critical citations from the Personhood: In Culture section of the Pillars of Personhood educational handbook. If you have additional questions about content within this section, please contact us at PersonhoodSeminar@grtl.org Peter Singer discusses personhood Peter Singer, Unsanctifying Human Life
January 2018 – Article 2: The 2018 session of the Georgia General Assembly will begin on January 8. It involves 40 “legislative days” and is expected to end in mid- to late-March. A legislative day means a day when the assembly is actually meeting, not a calendar day, which is why it’s impossible to predict the exact day the session will end. For the second year Georgia Right to Life’s (GRTL) government affairs representative in the legislature will be Jessica DuBois, owner of...
For years, Georgia Right to Life has held a no-support policy for the March of Dimes (MOD). One of the most frequent questions we are asked is if there is any new information on MOD, or is our boycott based on old information? After some recent study, there is new information. However, it does not bode well for the March of Dimes. Just to refresh you, the MOD boycott began in 1972, because they sponsored and pushed the technique of amniocentesis in order to diagnose handicapped children in the...
For decades, Americans have been warned of an impending population explosion that would perhaps threaten our very existence. The Population Bomb, published in 1968, by Professor Paul R. Ehrlich, warned of approaching mass starvation due to overpopulation. Our children have long been taught that a growing population is bad for the environment and society; that our planet cannot sustain future population growth. The media further propagates the teaching. Ironically, experts today find that we...
The Georgia Right To Life (GRTL) legislative team worked tirelessly during the 2016 Legislative Session to see that pro-personhood bills were passed and that anti-life bills were stopped. The result of those efforts is that two new pieces of life-affirming legislation will go into law on July 1, 2016 in Georgia and protect thousands of women, children, disabled, and terminally ill patients. The first measure on the books is Senate Science & Technology Committee Chairman Bruce Thompson’s SB...
Single Issue Voting Our forefathers drafted a constitution and set in motion a system of government that allows each citizen to register to vote and choose representation at the national and state levels of government freely and privately. Each of us decides which candidate deserves our vote. In making that decision, we are subjected to enormous amounts of advertising, polling information and media analysis. We often have a built-in cultural mechanism for making our choice. In that mechanism...
GRTL's Director of Education & Legislation and our Government Affairs Administrator Johnny Crist provide regular legislative updates from the Gold Dome. It is very important that the pro-life community know what Georgia Right to Life is doing to protect pre-born children and all innocent human life. With that in mind, Georgia Right to Life sends these updates to you regularly. First Fruits - Pro-Life Legislative Update January 16, 2016 Weathering the Storm - Pro-Life Legislative Update...
The Safe Harbor Law (SB 8) and Amendment (SR 7) are two pieces of legislation that are designed to create a fund in Georgia that is dedicated to serving the needs of victims of human sex trafficking. SB 8 and SR 7, introduced in the 2015 Legislative Session by Senator Renee Unterman, give new legal tools to prosecutors to protect underaged victims of sex trafficking and more aggressively pursue charges against pimps and those who solicit minors for sex. Georgia Right to Life recognizes the...
HB 837, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), authored by Representative Ed Setzler, is the House's legislation that would require courts to use a two-part test when handling religious liberty cases. The first part is determining whether the state has a compelling interest in interfering with the religious expression in question. The second part is determining whether the court is limiting that religious expression in the least restrictive means possible. This legislation is imperative...
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB 129) is modeled after the 1993 federal RFRA law that was supported by then-Senator Ted Kennedy and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. RFRA protects individuals and business owners from the government forcing them to violate their closely held religious beliefs without a compelling interest in doing so. The federal RFRA was instrumental in the US Supreme Court ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby and thus preventing the federal government from forcing...