Leading Pro-Life Groups Shocked at Handel’s Latest Endorsement

For Immediate Release  July 12, 2010                                                                 

Contact Melanie Crozier 770-339-6880

Lawrenceville, GA- Georgia Right to Life is stunned that former Alaskan Governor, Sarah Palin, has endorsed Karen Handel for Governor.  Mrs. Handel has proven that she is not the best candidate for Governor for the state of GA based on her more liberal views.  Although claiming to be pro-life, Mrs. Handel does not believe it necessary to protect the lives of all the preborn.  

Because of this, Georgia Right to Life chose not to endorse Mrs. Handel.  The Susan B. Anthony List, a group that seeks to see pro-life women elected, also withheld their stamp of approval from the only female candidate running in Georgia’s race for Governor. 

 “In 2010 women should stand up for women who will protect all life, not just some life”, comments Melanie Crozier, Director of GRTL’s Political Action Committee.  “I am especially surprised that Mrs. Palin would endorse a candidate that thinks pre-screening embryos for genetic disorders and abnormalities is okay, considering Mrs. Palin views those lives to be the most precious of all.”

Georgia Right to Life encourages all Georgians to vote for a candidate that has pledged to value all human life.  For a list of all GRTL PAC endorsed candidates, please visit www.grtl.org.

Georgia Right to Life (www.grtl.org) promotes respect and effective legal protection for all human life from its earliest biological beginning through natural death. GRTL is one of the number of organizations that have adopted Personhood (www.personhood.net) as the most effective pro-life strategy for the 21st century.

GRTL PAC Issues Endorsement for Governor

For Immediate Release, June 3, 2010

Contact Dan Becker 770-667-3777

Lawrenceville, GA- The Georgia Right to Life Political Action Committee (GRTL PAC) holds political candidates in this state to a very high standard in order to receive the pro-life endorsement.  “We live in the 21^st century”, says Melanie Crozier, Political Director for Georgia Right to Life, “where new biomedical advances bring new challenges that necessitate a new pro-life paradigm. We must protect all human life.” GRTL PAC’s policy has proven to be a success for Georgia legislation that protects all innocent human life from the earliest moments of biological development to the natural end of life. Currently, Georgia is numbered eighth in the nation, by Americans United for Life, in passing pro-life laws.

 Presently, of the six leading Republican candidates for Governor, five of the six are endorsed by the GRTL PAC.  “There is one candidate though, who does not merit GRTL’s endorsement, and that is Karen Handel.” says Crozier.  “Ms. Handel proclaims herself pro-life; however, she does not meet the 21^st century demands of being pro-life.” says Dan Becker, President of GRTL.

 “For instance, Handel believes that a child may be aborted based on its manner of conception. When I asked her directly her thoughts on the value of embryos, she answered that she does not believe that an embryonic human is a child.”

 Based on Ms. Handel’s own statements, she does not meet the GRTL PAC’s criteria and will not be endorsed in this primary election or the November election, without a change in her positions.

 The PAC urges all Republicans to vote for Life in the July 20^th primary by voting for one of the five GRTL PAC-endorsed candidates: Jeff Chapman, Nathan Deal, Eric Johnson, Ray McBerry or John Oxendine. 

 All candidates that were endorsed by GRTL PAC have signed the PAC affirmation statement which says that they agree with our position on the Personhood of all human beings from fertilization to natural death and the attendant need for a Personhood Amendment to our state Constitution. 

 They also affirm that there should be no exceptions in abortion law based solely on the manner in which a child is conceived, that there should be restrictions on destructive in-vitro fertilization (IVF) practices that women should not be coerced into having an abortion, and that abortions based on race and gender should be outlawed in our state.  These five candidates are solidly behind GRTL’s pro-life agenda for legislation that restores effective, legal protection to all “persons” under Georgia’s State Constitution.