Rarely do we look back and analyze the effects
of the laws we pass. Recently, I was given some
incredible information that I wanted to pass along.
After a long and controversial legislative battle,
the Georgia General assembly finally passed the
Woman’s Right to Know Act that requires women to be
informed of the medical risks of abortion and the
status of the life in their womb. They then had to
wait 24 hours before proceeding with this critical
decision.
According to the Senate Majority Leader, Tommie
Williams, we have already seen significant results
in passing this critical pro-life legislation. Since
it went into effect in May of 2005, between 32,500
and 40,500 women have talked to their doctors about
an abortion. After that conversation and the
information provided to them by this law,
approximately 10,000 chose to carry their babies to
term. In addition, 2,300 minors considered
terminating their pregnancy and only 500 did so. So
we saved about 11,800 babies so far. Pretty neat,
huh?
We passed the sonogram bill this year that allows
women the opportunity to see the life inside of
them. That should reduce abortions even more.
Electing pro-life legislators matter!
Sen. Eric Johnson
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