ProLifeNews.tv interviewed Georgia Representative Bobby Franklin at the Institute on the Constitution in Maryland.
Bobby Franklin receiving a Pro-Life award by Steve Peroutka, Chairman of the National Pro-Life Action Center
In reference to House Bill 1, Representative Franklin said:
“There are approaches that want to amend the Constitution to protect all human life from the moment of conception through natural death, which hopefully every Christian would be for protecting all human life from conception to natural death, but even with that, you still have to have a mechanism. What will the Grand Jury indict you for violating if someone does have their life taken away? All that you have without a law is if someone has standing in a court of law they could sue for violation of their rights, but you can’t prosecute a violation unless you have a law like House Bill 1 on the books.”
From House Bill 1:
(a) The State of Georgia has the duty to protect all innocent life from the moment of conception until natural death. We know that life begins at conception. After three decades of legal human abortion, it is now abundantly clear that the practice has negatively impacted the people of this state in many ways, including economic, health, physical, psychological, emotional, and medical well-being. These, too, are areas of legitimate concern and duty of the state. The General Assembly therefore makes the following findings of fact:
Click here to read the rest of Georgia House Bill 1
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Michael Peroutka - Institute on the Constitution
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