GEORGIA SENATE PASSES SB 529, COERSION AND PRENATAL
NON-DESCRIMINATION BAN
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., March 26 /Christian Newswire/ reported: Today the
Georgia Senate passed SB 529, a bill which would ban abortion in cases
where the woman was coerced against her will into aborting her child.
It would also ban abortion for gender selection, as well as racially discriminatory
abortion. It passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 14 nays.
Senator Chip Pearson was the sponsor of SB 529 which is the Senate version
of House Bill 1155. Besides seeking to address the issues of coerced abortions
and abortions performed because of the race, gender, or color of the child,
the bill provides enforcement of the existing law regarding the Women's
Right to Know. The bill also gives the women who have been coerced the
opportunity to bring suit against abortionists who violate Georgia Law.
"According to the CDC, of the 38 states that report, Georgia is currently
leading the nation in abortions in the black community. African-Americans
make up 30% of the population and 59% of the abortions.
In 2008, according to the Georgia Division of Health, 18,901 abortions
were performed on black women. SB 529 seeks to protect these women and
their children, from making decisions they did not want to make,"
said Catherine Davis, Director of Minority Outreach at Georgia Right to
Life. "No child should be aborted because of his or her race, sex,
or color. If it's wrong to discriminate in the workplace, in housing and
in education because of race or sex, it should be wrong to discriminate
against a child because she was the wrong sex," noted Dan Becker,
President, Georgia Right to Life.
NB: In Georgia the unborn are targetted because they are black, in India
and China because they are female.
-Babette Francis
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