The Pulse
Newsletter of Georgia Right to Life
Weathering The Storm – Pro-Life Legislative Update January 29, 2016
Weathering the Storm - Legislative Days 6-12 Georgia Right to Life (GRTL) has had a consistent full-time presence at the Capitol for decades. This team of activists works to lobby for pro-life legislation and helps influence its passage and works against against...
First Fruits – Pro-Life Legislative Update January 16, 2016
Georgia Baptist Mission Board's Mike Griffin with GRTL's Joshua Edmonds, Julie Pawlik, and Johnny Crist First Fruits - Legislative Days 1-5 Georgia Right to Life has had a consistent full-time presence at the Capitol for decades. This team of activists works to lobby...
Legislators
Georgia Right to Life is a grassroots organization and that means that you are vital in helping us get our message out. Whether it's signing the online petitions or contacting your elected representative, they all matter and are all important means for getting out the...
Termination of Rapist’s Parental Rights (Thompson)
SB 331 authored by Senator Bruce Thompson, 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...
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...
Safe Harbor
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...
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (Setzler)
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...
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (McKoon)
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...
Physician’s Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment Oversight
SB 305, authored by Senator Renee Unterman, is an oversight bill that requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to provide 60 days notice to all members of the House and Senate Health & Human Services Committees prior to making any changes to the Physicians...
Life A Path, Death A Destination
“Death is just another path, one that we all must take,” the wizard Gandalf says in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Return of the King. He is right – sooner or later, everyone faces death – but the path leading there can look very different depending on one’s circumstances at the...
Free Exercise Protection Act
HB 757, the Free Exercise Protection Act, authored by Representative Kevin Tanner, was introduced originally as the Pastor Protection Act and passed from the House. The Senate amended this bill to include comprehensive language from the First Amendment Defense Act...
First Amendment Defense Act
SB 284, the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), authored by Senator Greg Kirk, ensures that private citizens, Christian schools and adoption agencies, pastors, and churches cannot be discriminated against based on the exercise of their belief in the sanctity of...