Pro-Life News

Anti-Abortion Legislators Turning Up The Heat

By Walter C. Jones / The Times-Union
ATLANTA -- State Rep. Martin Scott is heating up the abortion debate. Scott, 36, a second-term Republican from Rossville, on the Tennessee border, is sponsoring an amendment to the Georgia Constitution that would outlaw abortion, euthanasia, cloning and embryonic stem-cell research. He introduced it late in the last session, and says the time is now for passage of a state measure. Patterned after the Human Life Amendment that has stalled in Congress for three decades, House Resolution 536 would define life as beginning at conception, granting the same legal status to an embryo as any adult. Full story...

Posted by Editor at October 1, 2007 10:45 AM