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Georgia ‘Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act’ (House Bill 481)

Position:

HB 481 strips away a woman's own personal rights decisions regarding her life and her unborn infants’ life.

Audience:

All females, young and old, and men who are in positions to create, change and influence the laws pertaining to women's health and reproduction rights. I think most women in my audience agree that the laws that are being made and introduced takes away a woman's rights to decide what to do with her body and unborn child. Many women aren't aware of being pregnant until after their first missed period which takes about six to eight weeks. This Bill puts more value on the life of an unborn baby than it does on the life of a woman and her personal choice on what she should do when she has conceived. Women and men who support the HB 481 object to this argument, taking a stance that 6 weeks after conception the unborn baby has a heartbeat, is human too and we must consider their lives and rights first. Everybody wants what is best for the mother first and child second. As the woman is the one who has to carry this child to term risking her own life in the process.

Goal

The goal of this paper is to persuade the law makers to throw out the HB 481, revise and update the current abortion laws and make it required for insurance companies to have a plan in place for planned parenthood, contraceptives and abortions. Having an abortion should be safe and private for each woman facing that decision.

Supporting Points

1. The new law prohibits abortion only up to 6 weeks of pregnancy, a time when most women especially teenagers would not know that they were pregnant. Most women won't realize they are pregnant until after their first missed period which is usually 6-8 weeks after conceiving.

2. The new law only makes an exception for incest and rape only when a police report is filed and/or when a woman's life and health are at risk but there are several other reasons that a woman may want to terminate a pregnancy and those reasons should be taken into consideration as well.

3. There should not be a room full of men or a room of majority men making laws and policies on women's health and rights. Especially, when we are still living in times where women are still fighting for equality when compared to men in the world.

Research

Abortion Advocates File Lawsuit Challenging Georgia Heartbeat Law. By: Ducharme, Jamie, Time.com, 0040781X, 6/28/2019

Planned Parenthood. 2019. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/abortion/considering-abortion

Jodi Lott. 2019. Georgia ‘Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act’ (HB 481). May 2019. https://rewire.news/legislative-tracker/law/georgia-living-infants-fairness-and-equality-life-act-hb-481/

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/28/736946045/georgia-abortion-providers-file-federal-suit-against-states-fetal-heartbeat-law

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roe-v-wade

Salcedo, Cristina. Loyola of Los Angeles Law