Rep. Ed Setzler presents his bill to the Governmental Affairs Special Subcommittee in Atlanta on Feb. 13, 2018.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.ATLANTA — Amid tears, gasps and handshakes, a Georgia House committee approved legislation Wednesday to outlaw abortion after a fetus' heartbeat can be detected, which is around the same time many women medically confirm they are pregnant.
The House Health and Human Services Committee approved the anti-abortion measure on a party-line vote of 17 to 14. Thirteen Republican men and four Republican women voted for it. Seven Democratic men and seven Democratic women voted against. Gov. Brian Kemp pledged during his recent campaign for governor to sign the"toughest abortion laws in the country." Kemp's campaign website says he supports"a 'Heartbeat Bill' that outlaws abortions after six weeks."
"We know life begins at conception. I think that's worthy of full legal protection," said the bill's author, Rep. Ed Setzler."Certainly we can come together and recognize if there's a human heartbeat, that child's worthy of protection." A group of mostly female lawmakers and health care advocates and professionals lined up to speak against the bill.
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Great news
Eroding more and more of Women’s Rights. BTW...if you stop paying for Women’s Birth Control, stop paying for Men’s Viagra, Cialis, etc.
Judge not! If you confess without sin, be the first t toi cast the stone!
Please don't let the cons men and women ruin Alberta's future. They failed us for decades!
Wasn't Georgia the most corrupt state in the US in 2014? Should they be allowed to make laws? Could Georgia be the most discriminative state in the US? Did the Committee ask their constituents or their financial contributors regarding this decision?
Why are medical decisions choosen by law professionals instead of medical professionals? Do law makers make any other medical procedure laws or just one's that effect female's? Why are sex crimes so lenient? If your born with a penis does that make a human automatically smarter?
Time to break out the coat hangers and the vodka. But I suppose this is what Georgia wants.
Is it easier for a Muslim woman or a GA woman to be free? One has to defy male imposed stereotypes for female behavior. The other is a Muslim.
This is in line with what the extraterrestrials believe. 21 days. Interesting.
Ridiculous. Again, keep your own views to yourself.
If women are not free to have an abortion they are not free. This is slavery. It is sexual slavery to frequently force a woman to have sex, so do we call this CelibateSlavery, making sex and freedom mutually exclusive for women?
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Great! Thank You Jesus! We need this in all 50 states! ProLife ProLifeMovement GeorgiaHouse Georgia
Are the ConServeNothings going to care for these children when they are born?! No because they are only pro-birth, not pro-life! They think they have the right to tell women what we can and can not do with our own bodies! Delusional and misogynistic losers
Just curious how this affects decisions on life support and organ donation. The heart can beat with no brain activity.
Good thing we have a separation of church and state in our government. 😐
Excellent. Civilized nations MUST choose life!
slide63 Does that make you sad?
If you can’t feed’em don’t breed’em
good news! also the father should get a say!
Good. Abortion is murder.
Thats good news...
We need to carefully define 'heart' then, because that beating you hear is not from a developed organ.
This is the result of incest