A House Democrat to sponsor personhood amendment
Today is the first day that bills can be pre-filed for next year’s session of the General Assembly.
We’re told that two lawmakers intend to submit “personhood” resolutions – proposed constitutional amendments that would declare that life begins at fertilization, as would legal protection. All abortions would be banned; in vitro fertilization would be restricted.
Mississippi defeated a similar measure last week by 58 percent.
In the Senate, the sponsor will be Barry Loudermilk, R-Cassville – no surprise, given his pro-life reputation. In the House, the sponsor will be Rick Crawford of Cedartown.
Here’s the thing: Crawford is a Democrat.
“I’m from rural Georgia,” he said. “I have to be well in step, and people have to trust me to represent their interests. It’s not a surprise to anyone that I’m pro-life. This is a discussion that is appropriate for us to have.”
Crawford is currently teaching political science at Shorter College – the school that now requires all employees to foreswear pre-marital, adulterous or homosexual relationships. Crawford also once studied to be a pastor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. So the biography fits.
But the fact that the premier piece of anti-abortion legislation in the House will be carried by a member of the minority caucus clearly is a sign that the rift between House Republican leaders and Georgia Right to Life is still going strong.
With Bobby Franklin gone to his Maker, and James Mills now in the business of sending certain state prisoners to theirs, we may have a shortage of rank-and-file House GOP members willing to be caught in the crossfire.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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LeeH1
November 15th, 2011
7:42 pm
I’m waiting to see when the first woman deported from the US claims citizenship from their child born in another country seven months later, because it was conceived in America. And that citizenship goes hand in hand with personhood.
I think these people are talking themselves into a corner.
hl
November 15th, 2011
7:43 pm
How big our are jails? I admit to using IUD’s and birth control pills in my younger days. What’s the statute of limitations on using family planning? It has never been about Roe v Wade. There are some who want to overturn Griswold v Ct. Yeah, barefoot and pregnant. We don’t need those uppity gals running the State Dept when there are fine white men who are qualified.
Pro-Life? While Georgia Children Go To Bed Hungry Every Night
November 15th, 2011
7:44 pm
@No Longer Republican November 15th, 2011 6:32 pm – YOU SAY – The people who fight so hard to limit the freedoms of women, offer absolutely NO HELP to those families after the child is born.
I AGREE WITH YOU.
Is Mr. Crawford concerned about the children who go to bed hungry?
hiram bronson granbury
November 15th, 2011
7:44 pm
BILLY MAYS HERE
November 15th, 2011
7:29 pm
**Reactionary politicians are only the symptom. The citizens of Georgia are the disease.**
The disease is ignorance, and judging from the polls in Iowa, it appears to be pandemic.
BILLY MAYS HERE
November 15th, 2011
7:47 pm
Well I prefer to think of Georgians as a plague but that works too
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
7:57 pm
remarkable the number of supposedly intelligent, ethical people who are OK with the murder of the unborn. I guess America is better at producing exploiters than ethical people.
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
7:58 pm
liberals are just so immoral & intolerant. Plus a good dose of infantility.
BILLY MAYS HERE
November 15th, 2011
7:58 pm
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
7:57 pm
remarkable the number of supposedly intelligent, ethical people who are OK with the murder of the unborn. I guess America is better at producing exploiters than ethical people.
Go back to your cave.
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
7:59 pm
Lee – you an expert at making strawman arguments? Or just an imbecile?
BILLY MAYS HERE
November 15th, 2011
7:59 pm
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
7:58 pm
liberals are just so immoral & intolerant. Plus a good dose of infantility.
You decry liberals while at the same time advocation an expansion of government size and power to “protect the unborn.” Dare I say that you’re a liberal too?
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
7:59 pm
as opposed to your ivory tower? you another expert similiar to Lee? straw man?
Tom
November 15th, 2011
7:59 pm
Hey, Paddy, how many “unborn” have you claimed as dependents on your taxes?
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:00 pm
that is an excellent example of liberal asinine idealism. try saying that with a straight face.
BILLY MAYS HERE
November 15th, 2011
8:00 pm
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
7:59 pm
as opposed to your ivory tower? you another expert similiar to Lee? straw man?
Nice strawman argument.
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:01 pm
Tom – more straw man arguments? Do you liberals think cognitively as all? Or just have elitest temper tantrums?
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:02 pm
OK, MR Mays: How is advocating for the prevention of the murder of the innocent unborn, akin to living in a cave?
BILLY MAYS HERE
November 15th, 2011
8:03 pm
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:01 pm
Tom – more straw man arguments? Do you liberals think cognitively as all? Or just have elitest temper tantrums?
For someone so concerned about ethical arguments you sure do throw around a lot of ad hominem attacks.
BILLY MAYS HERE
November 15th, 2011
8:03 pm
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:02 pm
OK, MR Mays: How is advocating for the prevention of the murder of the innocent unborn, akin to living in a cave?
Don’t post here, TD.
hl
November 15th, 2011
8:04 pm
Paddy O, Will you agree to raise all those petri dish babies? Can’t let a living cell die. Now those out of the womb..well no health care for you. Get a job…
Tom
November 15th, 2011
8:04 pm
Wanna hear something funny, Paddy?….I’m a conservative. Been voting GOP nearly my entire life. I’m just not into mythology.
RSC
November 15th, 2011
8:04 pm
So, if personhood begins at fertilization and corporations are people, too, then when and how do corporations get fertilized?
td
November 15th, 2011
8:05 pm
Centrist
November 15th, 2011
5:57 pm
Another impose a personal preference bill – Sen. Bill Heath, R-Bremen, filed the proposal to reverse “In God We Trust” car sticker. He proposed the motto would be the default on any license plates manufactured after July 1 but motorists could buy a county decal sticker to cover it if they wanted.
Here is a good one: Drug-test parents who apply for federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) by State Rep. Jason Spencer, R-Woodbine.
Nothing wrong with either of these bills. If you do not want “In God we Trust” then buy county decal. If you are going to receive Government benefits then you should be drug tested.
hiram bronson granbury
November 15th, 2011
8:05 pm
BILLY MAYS HERE
November 15th, 2011
7:47 pm
“Well I prefer to think of Georgians as a plague but that works too.”
It’s not specific to Georgia; Rick Perry makes Sonny Purdue look like Albert Einstein. And don’t forget that Minnesotans elected Michelle Bachmann, and Jesse “The Body” Ventura before that, and Sarah Palin is a multi millionaire.
The entire country is in a free fall. It just seems like it’s Georgia, because that is where you are.
BILLY MAYS HERE
November 15th, 2011
8:05 pm
Yeah it’s funny watching Republican liberals bend over backwards to save the unborn while at the same time do everything possible to destroy it after it is born. They’re genuinely horrible people.
Just Wondering
November 15th, 2011
8:06 pm
Does that mean that I can claim a fertilized embryo as a dependent on my tax returns?
BILLY MAYS HERE
November 15th, 2011
8:06 pm
Centrist, TD, and Paddy O are the same person–please do not reply to them further. It only encourages them to post more.
Thanks in advance.
detritusUSA
November 15th, 2011
8:07 pm
Mississippi voters were smart enough to defeat this crap. I’m very afraid that Georgia voters aren’t that smart.
Tom
November 15th, 2011
8:09 pm
td, nobody should have to BUY a decal to cover up a non-secular slogan on a REQUIRED secular instrument. Anyone who wishes to plaster their ‘look at me’ declaration of their faith on their car tag already have the option of BUYING the sticker to do just that.
Were you able to follow that or did I type too quickly?
BILLY MAYS HERE
November 15th, 2011
8:10 pm
Tom
November 15th, 2011
8:09 pm
td, nobody should have to BUY a decal to cover up a non-secular slogan on a REQUIRED secular instrument. Anyone who wishes to plaster their ‘look at me’ declaration of their faith on their car tag already have the option of BUYING the sticker to do just that.
Were you able to follow that or did I type too quickly?
Or better yet they could buy one of those stupid fish decals themselves
rudikkingme
November 15th, 2011
8:13 pm
SpaceTime is on the side of the Conservatives here. Eve was very convincing, otherwise how could she have gotten Adam to get off that wonderful couch?
Think about what a total evil POS every single woman is.
That’s why I hate Midori so much, if any of you ever wondered.
Look, we have to align ourselves sooner or later.
So I ask you.
Who is with me?
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:15 pm
Tom – what mythology? That abortion is a privacy right? That is some excellent mythology. That women are so intelligent & responsible that they won’t use abortion as birth control? The numbers indicate that is not so. From your comments, I doubt your conservativism.
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:16 pm
Tom – are you are California conservative?
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:17 pm
Billy Mays – poster boy for insulate thought & the intolerant (hypocritical?) liberal.
rudikkingme
November 15th, 2011
8:17 pm
TD: don’t post anymore. UrAmoron. Maybe this biggest idiot I’ve ever witnessed. Everything you write is not just stupid, but idiotic as well.
What a rare achievement4any writer.
get lost, fool.
now.
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:18 pm
the drug test, if required to be paid for by the applicant, is an excellent law. FL data indicates it cuts down on welfare applications quite a bit.
Tom
November 15th, 2011
8:18 pm
Here’s an idea….default to NO STICKER, and give the option of adding either the county sticker or any of a selection of other “vanity” stickers, including “In God We Trust”, “Baruch Hashem Adonai”, “Allahu Akbar”, “Life is Good”, “Where’s the Beef?”, etc….for a nominal fee.
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:19 pm
rudi – the arrogance is typical liberal. do you live in GA?
Hilarious
November 15th, 2011
8:21 pm
It’s hilarious reading the comments on this site. Seriously, you can keep throwing around the word “liberal” as if it is a bad thing, but every civilized place on Earth besides here in ‘Merica knows just how backwards “conservatism” really is.
Anyway, just wanted to throw that out there. Please, keep on entertaining me!
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:22 pm
hil – Does that include all the bankrupt nations in Europe who embraced liberalism?
Shine
November 15th, 2011
8:22 pm
I dont agree with abortions but this goes too far.
td
November 15th, 2011
8:24 pm
Tom
November 15th, 2011
8:09 pm
“In God we Trust” is on the back of every dollar you spend. It is on the walls above the Supreme court, so I am sure it is not a separation of church and state issue.
Next thing I am going to hear is this nation was not founded on Judeo/ Christian values.
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:24 pm
I hope that this is proposed as a state constitutional amendment – it would allow the will of the majority of the people in Georgia to be expressed.
rudikkingme
November 15th, 2011
8:25 pm
Okay, U wont listen. So what? I’ll tell U all anyway. I was a victim of abortion. I’m not even here. I was coat-hangered in the same barbaric way that the defensive end was clothes-hangared in the movie “Longest Yard”, with Burt Reynolds.
They threw my carcass into the nearest garbage bin. I stayed there in freezing cold for daze.
But, because there is a GOD, I survived. Some total alchoholic waste disposal engineer managed to see me, and his 911 call was one4the ages.
So let me expound upon the liberal platform about abortion rights, and the right to choose, and the entire pro-choice agenda……let’s see, how can I best express this sentiment…….
U can all kiss my totally smooth baby’s behind, okay?
Remember: eventually, we will all have to explain our positions on abortion to the ALMIGHTY.
eventually.
So Midori can do whatever she wants. She’s finished. The Virgin told me so.
Jklol.
hiram bronson granbury
November 15th, 2011
8:25 pm
Does anyone know a state representative or senator that would sponsor a Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) sticker for our license plate. All of the reps in NW Georgia are members of the Taliban. I’m looking for women around here to be wearing berkas any day now.
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:25 pm
separation of Church & state is a judicial creation. That is NOT what the text of the US Constitution states. Nor does it guarantee the right to experssion. Just written & spoken.
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:27 pm
rudi is an example of hell on earth. certainly not a happy camper. reap what thou sow.
Paddy O
November 15th, 2011
8:28 pm
rudi – is the zombie Billy Mays making any better sense to you than the rest of us still breathing?
Tom
November 15th, 2011
8:28 pm
td, I’m not required to use dollars….but I’m required to have a tag on my car.
Ever wonder why the founders of a nation supposedly “founded on Judeo/Christian values” so deliberately fashioned the one document upon which all of its laws and protections are based to be so explicitly secular?
td
November 15th, 2011
8:28 pm
rudikkingme
November 15th, 2011
8:17 pm
Maybe you can understand this my misguided/unintelligent friend, I will continue to post on these blogs until the day Jim or the AJC decides they do not want to read my views any longer. If you do not like it then you can just keep in your small minded world and not read them.
Do you understand?
rudikkingme
November 15th, 2011
8:29 pm
TD: so you have spent your soul on the poetic value of our founding fathers?
U stink really bad. Your opinion is rushannity and I think there’s a little bit of Moe in there somewhere.
Just get lost.
Beggin’ here.
bwa