Rally on Saturday, June 19th at Planned Parenthood in Lawrenceville

Abortion Free Gwinnett is hosting the biggest pro-life rally yet at the new Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Lawrenceville on Saturday, June 19th at noon.

Everyone is encouraged to bring at least 10 friends.

The goal of this rally is to let Planned Parenthood know that they are not welcome in Georgia.

Participants are encouraged to bring signs and to come with a prayerful heart.

The clinic is located on the corner of Lawrenceville Suwanee and Duluth HWY right next to a barber shop and Five Guys Burgers and Fries.

For More Information, visit www.abortionfreegwinnett.org

I’m Voting Yes on July 20th

By Hannah Carter, Director of Education

The year is 1906 and a young man by the name of Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy, is put on display in a monkey house with an orangutan to show the effects of human evolution. He has no rights as a person because society views him as an animal, an extension of evolution. Subsequently, Ota Benga is sold to the highest bidder and Ota’s owner decides what he should do with “his property.” After public outcry from some clergy, Ota is removed from the zoo. He goes to live in an orphanage, but still faces taunts from others. In 1916, he becomes depressed and commits suicide. His personhood is robbed from him and so is his dignity.

One hundred years later, the situation is very similar. In 2006, Dr. Matthew Kuchinas of Sarasota, FL mistakenly aborts the wrong twin in a selective reduction procedure. Dr. Kuchinas believed that one of

Ota Benga

 the twins had Down syndrome and a possible heart defect. One week after aborting “the wrong child,” he informed the parents and they requested that the other child be aborted. The doctor later had his license revoked for killing the “wrong” unborn baby. Why was the child with Down syndrome deemed as the child undeserving of life? Was he any less human than his twin? Because of a series of genetic tests, he was deemed a non-person because he had the chance of being born with a disability.

We face a real moral tragedy in America today. Ota Benga was denied personhood because he was different; those twins were denied their personhood because they were unwanted or deemed disabled.  Defending the personhood of children in the womb, persons with disabilities, and the elderly is at the heart of the 21^st century battle for the preservation of the sanctity of life of all persons.

Can something be done?

On July 20, 2010, voters from across this state will be given the opportunity to do something by voting for the Personhood Amendment Ballot Initiative. Each voter in the counties that have been certified to have it on the ballot will have the chance to tell their representative where they stand on the life issue by answering this question: “Do you support an amendment to the Georgia state constitution so as to provide that the paramount right to life is vested in each human being from the earliest biological beginning until natural death?”

The outcome of this ballot serves as a barometer to let your elected officials know what your county believes about protecting human life. In 2008, the citizens of Forsyth County voted on a similar question that asked voters if they would support an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution that would establish the right to life for all humans from the moment of fertilization until natural death. 64% of the voters said YES! 

This number matches the last major poll that was done in this state that showed that 57% of Georgians favor overthrowing Roe v. Wade.

Through the work of the Georgia Right to Life Chapters and a former state party chairman, forty-seven Republican Chairmen and one Democratic Chairman (Butts County) have requested their local Election Board to certify the question for the July Primary.

On July 20, 2010, I will be joining the pastors that stood up for Ota Benga in saying that no one’s personhood should be denied by voting for the Personhood Amendment Ballot Initiative. Every person deserves protection of their human dignity under the law. Remember your vote is your voice, so vote your principles in this election cycle.

The following counties will have the Personhood question on your ballot on the Republican ballot on July 20, 2010:

Appling, Bacon, Banks, Bartow, Brantley, Bulloch, Burke, Butts (Republican and Democrat ballots), Carroll, Chatham, Cherokee, Clayton, Coffee, Colquitt, DeKalb, Dooly, Fannin, Fulton, Glynn, Gordon, Gwinnett, Hall, Hart, Jackson, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jones, Lamar, Liberty, Lowndes, Murray, Muscogee, Paulding, Pickens, Pierce, Spalding, Thomas, Tift, Towns, Troup, Twigs, Union, Walker, Walton, Ware, Wilcox, and Worth.

For More Questions about the Personhood Ballot Initiative, please call 770-339-6880 or visit PersonhoodAmendmentGA.com.

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.

Black and Unwanted: New Billboard Campaign Launches this Week

For Immediate Release June 1, 2010

For More Information Contact Catherine Davis 770-339-6880

Lawrenceville, GA – Black and Unwanted, the new billboard campaign launched by Georgia Right to Life and the Radiance Foundation has a continuing message and goal: to increase awareness of the devastating impact of abortion on Georgia’s black community while highlighting the need for more adoptions. Over 60 billboards have been placed in Augusta, Macon, and Savannah.

Georgia is among the states that lead the country in the number of reported abortions performed on black women, 18,901 in 2008 alone.

Catherine Davis, Director of Minority Outreach for Georgia Right to Life noted, “This project is going to continue as long as women are being lied to and the killing of black children is seen as our ‘best’ way to end poverty. Women need to know all their options and expose the lies that Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers have been spreading for years.”

“Our children are our heritage, our strength and the abortion community has reduced our legacy to the status of a parasite, something to be eliminated rather than cherished,” Davis said. “Black and Unwanted is a campaign that begins the restoration of value to black children in Georgia and the nation.”

 Ryan Bomberger, creator of the billboards and co-founder of the Radiance Foundation, noted that there is a reason the emphasis of this campaign is on black Americans and abortion, “According to the CDC, African-Americans have abortions at three times the rate of white women and twice the rate of all other races combined.”

Bomberger continues, “Abortion is being used as birth control and increasingly encouraged by groups like Planned Parenthood who, in 2008, aborted 65 children for every 1 client they referred for adoption; that’s 305,310 abortions to 4,912 adoption referrals.”

In addition to the billboards, the website www.TooManyAborted.com and the Twitter account www.twitter.com/endangered7337 are being used as tools to continue the discussion.

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 numbers of organizations that have adopted Personhood (www.personhood.net) as the most effective pro-life strategy for the 21st century.