Hard Day's Night
Well, life at the airport continues to be exciting and exhausting all at once. I worked the counter for like 11 hours on Monday and it was exhausting. They have some OT available next week but they only need counter the days I could work and I don't know if I'm really up for that... we'll see what this paycheck looks like, I suppose.
On that note, I decided not to take day trades and OT next Wed/Thu/Fri and trek down to the big TX. I'll be in Houston on Wed and, I think, Austin on Thursday night, then fly back on Friday. It all depends on whether or not I hear back from certain people, I might just be flying down to Houston for a day and then deciding to go somewhere else. I'll come back to Atlanta the week of the 20th, I think, and try to stay until Friday so I can go to Birdi's and see people-- I need to check with Airtran about flight availability, though.
Right now I'm drinking Cranberry Pomegranate juice and it's very yummy. Just had a shower, which was nice, it kind of calmed me down. People have been irritating me a lot lately, and I'm not sure why. I just find myself getting really pissed at folks who don't use proper English-- and I'm not saying everyone has to speak super cool English major English, but we are all taught the same language in elementary school and we should use it. None of this "I done waited" bullshit, I want proper verb tenses! I would also like to not have to listen to some high pitched girl screaming at her boyfriend who stopped in to visit her when she was cleaning the apartment next door (it's empty now, so they're working on it) about how she "don't care about no dumb ass nigger" or something similar that made me roll my eyes and ask why I couldn't have quiet for fifteen minutes while I ate. Slang makes me sick. Euphamisms and colloquialisms are one thing, but slang really irritates me.
I'm also basically baffled by young black individuals who are well educated and whose families have obviously done a lot to separate themselves from the lower classes (much like middle class white families like my own), and yet they don't speak proper English and consistently say things like "losin up" instead of "loosen up". It just doesn't make sense to me. YOU HAVE AN EDUCATION. USE IT. And that applies to any ethnicity, it just so happens the person I'm speaking with at the moment is black-- it drives me up the wall when anyone does it.
Of course, he just thinks I'm being an asshole and that I should (as I said earlier) "losin up".
I'm also pissed about this, and I'm going to LJ cut because I feel the need to respond to every section of HB1, otherwise known as
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To amend Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to crimes against public health and morals, so as to make certain findings of fact; to define certain terms; to provide that any abortion shall be unlawful; to provide a penalty; to provide for severance; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Crimes against public health. You know, not that overpopulation is a crime against public health. Just ask China. As for providing for severance... that seems a little ironic, don't you think? Though it is nice they care about our moral health as well as our public health. But what about personal physical and mental wellbeing? Does that count, too?
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to crimes against public health and morals, is amended by revising Article 5, relating to abortion, in its entirety as follows:
ʺARTICLE 5
16-12-140.
(a) The State of Georgia has the duty to protect all innocent life from the moment of conception until natural death. We know that life begins at conception. After three decades of legal human abortion, it is now abundantly clear that the practice has negatively impacted the people of this state in many ways, including economic, health, physical, psychological, emotional, and medical well-being. These, too, are areas of legitimate concern and duty of the state. The General Assembly therefore makes the following findings of fact:
The State of Georgia, I thought, had the duty to protect all innocent life period-- I suppose that's implied by the "until natural death" part. I do wonder, though, how they propose to take care of even more "lives" when they can't even take care of the ones currently residing in its own borders... According to the 2005 census, 9,072,576 people reside in Georgia; that's almost 33% of the US population right there. Now, this is a 10% rise since the previous census in 2000 so maybe they already started calculating fetuses in to this equation but I think not. For these 9,072,576 people, the median income is $42,421 which is just under the national average-- the percentage below poverty level, however, is at a beautiful 13.3% which is almost a full percentage point above the national poverty level of 12.5%. In 2000, almost 20% of Georgians were uninsured, and I'll all but guarantee you that number has at the very least stayed the same. Also, just to toss it out, the projected population is 363,584,435 by July of 2030(PDF).
(1) Justice Blackmun, writing for the majority in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), wrote: 'when those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man´s knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer [to the question of when life begins].' Now, 30 years later, the General Assembly knows the answer to that difficult question, and that answer is life begins at the moment of conception;
You know, they keep saying that and I keep asking them to show me how they know that and I just haven't seen any evidence. Unless you count sites like this, and it is on the internet so it must be true...
(2) A fetus is a person for all purposes under the laws of this state from the moment of conception;
Then let's charge it with loitering. Stealing. Vagrancy. Tell it to get a job. You see where I'm going with this. Joey will understand: WWKD? What Would Kant Do?
(3) Even if the answer to the question of when life begins were unclear, the Georgia Constitution, at Article I, Section I, Paragraph II, provides: 'Protection to person and property is the paramount duty of government and shall be impartial and complete. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws.' Because a fetus is a person, constitutional protection attaches at the moment of conception. It is therefore the duty of the General Assembly to protect the innocent life that is currently being taken;
This doesn't even cover what it starts out to cover. It seems to want to provide a legal, ethical, or moral (but hey, they're all the same, right?) solution to those who don't believe life begins at conception. I don't know about you, but I'm still not convinced...
(4) As a direct result of three decades of legalized abortion on demand, the nation has seen a dramatic rise in the incidence of child abuse and a dramatic weakening of family ties, with the infamous Roe v. Wade decision pitting mothers against their children and women against men;
Now, I'm not going to argue with the fact that it seems child abuse and domestic violence incidences have risen, but I will take issue with the fact that they say the rates have risen and not the rates of reporting. The Family Violence Prevention Fund reports(PDF) that it looks like women are more willing and able to report these incidences than in the past. Roe v. Wade was a decision handed down in 1973, over 30 years ago-- women have come a long way since then in asserting their independence and the lawn in assisting that independence. Family ties have weakened, but not because of abortion; hell, even Forbes had an article about divorce rates rising! As for mothers against their children, I'm not sure how that works. And women against men... well, I know men who are of the "pro life" stance who would beat their wives if they found out they were considering an abortion, but no worries, those women can't get away from the other ten children anyway.
(5) Studies of the three decades since Roe v. Wade have revealed that women have been deeply wounded psychologically, with one researcher reporting that 81 percent of the women who have had an abortion had a preoccupation with an aborted child, 54 percent had nightmares, 35 percent had perceived visitation with an aborted child, and 96 percent felt their abortion had taken a human life;
One: ALWAYS cite your sources. Jeez. I knew that when I was in high school. Two: Ask any doctor. Yes, there are women who suffer these things after an abortion, it's not a pleasant thing. Most of these women also don't want to get an abortion-- they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. I'm not sure I would feel I'd taken a life with an abortion, but I would be sad for the potential of a life, the potential for someone who might change the world. That being said, the potential alone does not grant someone the status of a person.
(6) Studies have shown that women who have had an abortion require psychological treatment of such symptoms as nervous disorders, sleep disturbances, and deep regrets, with 25 percent of one test group of women who have had abortions visiting a psychiatrist while only 3 percent of a control group did so;
See above. Also see this from Planned Parenthood: Risks and Side Effects
(7) Another random study showed that at least 19 percent of women who have had an abortion suffered from diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, with 50 percent suffering from many, but not all, symptoms of that disorder, and 20 to 40 percent of the women studied showed moderate to high levels of stress and avoidance behavior relative to their abortion experience;
Aaand see above again. Doctors do tell them these things. They also recommend seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist afterwards.
(8) Approximately 60 percent of women who have had an abortion and who reported post-abortion trauma also reported suicidal tendencies with 28 percent actually attempting suicide, of whom half attempted suicide two or more times;
(9) Abortion results in increased tobacco smoking, and women who have had an abortion are twice as likely to become heavy smokers and suffer the corresponding health problems as women who have never had an abortion;
I'm sorry, but this just seems a little silly to me seeing as one of the side effects of not having an abortion when you really honest to god need one is DEATH. Really, as much as lung cancer sucks, if I can get my life together to maybe have a kid before I spiral downwards in to the oblivion, I probably won't start smoking. Or maybe I'll stop. Who knows?
(10) Abortion is linked to alcohol and drug abuse, with a two-fold increase in the risk of alcohol abuse among women who have had an abortion and a significant increase in drug abuse;
(11) Most couples find abortion to be an event which shatters their relationship, causing chronic marital troubles and divorce;
Did you also know the same thing happens to couples who lose a child due to miscarriage or death at any age? Funny how that happens. Maybe we should just make death in general illegal. Oh, you know what else is funny? GA supports the death penalty... just sayin
(12) Abortion exploits women, treating them and their children as mere property, and abortion is contrary to feminist values, and the great suffragette Susan B. Anthony referred to abortion as 'child murder';
Now, no offense to Susan B., she's a cool lady and I like what she did for our half of the species, buuuut I didn't ask for her opinion. Nor do I appreciate a party who didn't want women to vote using a quote from one of the suffragettes to make their case. It's just wrong. Also, she was a proponent of women having equal rights. If one were to say that abortion exploits women by being allowed, wouldn't disallowing the same thing still treat them as property? Like, saying that you could shoe a certain kind of horse and couldn't another. The horse doesn't have any say either way, he just either gets the shoe or has to limp around town for a while until Mr. Ed shows up and chats up congress.
(13) Thirty years of abortion on demand have resulted in an increase in breast cancer, and a study has shown that women who had an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy before experiencing a full-term pregnancy may be at increased risk for breast cancer;
You know, a lot of things say that such and such is the reason for the rise in breast cancer, and honestly they think that frequent periods are a cause of breast cancer, so screw you guys me and my breasteses are going to be ok with an abortion because one of the other things that causes it is part of our natural process, asshole.
(14) The practice of abortion has had a profound detrimental effect on the health and well-being of the citizens of this state as well as the health of the economy; and
See, you're not listening to me on that whole population growth thing. What are you going to do when these women have all these babies and YOU have to insure them? It's just not working, GA, just not working at all.
(15) The practice of abortion has caused the citizens of this state an inestimable amount economically including, but not limited to, the costs and tax burden of having to care for individuals and their families for the conditions cited above, as well as a significant reduction of the tax base and of the availability of workers, entrepreneurs, teachers, employees, and employers that would have significantly contributed to the prosperity of this state.
Yep, because sending women home to stay with the children doesn't cost us any of these things-- nor does state sponsored day care or medical programs for the children of people who couldn't afford to have children but had to because a certain procedure was illegal.
(b) As used in this Code section, the term:
(1) 'Abortion' means the intentional termination of human pregnancy with an intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus; provided, however, that if a physician makes a medically justified effort to save the lives of both the mother and the fetus and the fetus does not survive, such action shall not be an abortion. Such term does not include a naturally occurring expulsion of a fetus known medically as a 'spontaneous abortion' and popularly as a 'miscarriage' so long as there is no human involvement whatsoever in the causation of such event.
You know, this actually soothes my nerves a little bit-- as long as non-human pregnancies can be performed, the race will survive. We win! Also, what about 'miscarriage' is popular? And what if a man throws his wife down the stairs? Do we charge him with assault and abortion?
(2) 'Fetus' means a person at any point of development from and including the moment of conception through the moment of birth. Such term includes all medical or popular designations of an unborn child from the moment of conception such as zygote, embryo, homunculus, and similar terms.
OK, I can live with this definition.
(c) The practice of abortion is contrary to the health and well-being of the citizens of this state and to the state itself and is illegal in this state in all instances.
(d) Any person performing an abortion in this state shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided in subsection (d) of Code Section 16-5-1. The license of any physician indicted for an alleged violation of this Code section shall be suspended until resolution of the matter. The license of any physician convicted of a violation of this Code section shall be permanently revoked. The provisions of this Code section shall be in addition to any other provisions relating to the killing of a fetus or any other person.ʺ
SECTION 2.
If any portion of this Act is found to be unconstitutional by the courts, the remaining portions of this Act shall remain in full force and effect.
Say what?
SECTION 3.
This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.
SECTION 4.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
And, while I have your attention, I'd like to briefly quote the Abortion Surveillance report from the CDC.
Interpretation: From 1990 through 1997, the number of legal induced abortions gradually declined. In 1998 and in 1999, the number of abortions continued to decrease when comparing the same 48 reporting areas. In 1998, as in previous years, deaths related to legal induced abortions occurred rarely.
Public Health Action: Abortion surveillance in the United States should continue so that trends and characteristics of women who obtain legal induced abortions can be examined and efforts to prevent unintended pregnancy can be enhanced.
For those of you who don't know, the CDC is headquartered in Atlanta. You know, the capitol of Georgia.
On that note, I decided not to take day trades and OT next Wed/Thu/Fri and trek down to the big TX. I'll be in Houston on Wed and, I think, Austin on Thursday night, then fly back on Friday. It all depends on whether or not I hear back from certain people, I might just be flying down to Houston for a day and then deciding to go somewhere else. I'll come back to Atlanta the week of the 20th, I think, and try to stay until Friday so I can go to Birdi's and see people-- I need to check with Airtran about flight availability, though.
Right now I'm drinking Cranberry Pomegranate juice and it's very yummy. Just had a shower, which was nice, it kind of calmed me down. People have been irritating me a lot lately, and I'm not sure why. I just find myself getting really pissed at folks who don't use proper English-- and I'm not saying everyone has to speak super cool English major English, but we are all taught the same language in elementary school and we should use it. None of this "I done waited" bullshit, I want proper verb tenses! I would also like to not have to listen to some high pitched girl screaming at her boyfriend who stopped in to visit her when she was cleaning the apartment next door (it's empty now, so they're working on it) about how she "don't care about no dumb ass nigger" or something similar that made me roll my eyes and ask why I couldn't have quiet for fifteen minutes while I ate. Slang makes me sick. Euphamisms and colloquialisms are one thing, but slang really irritates me.
I'm also basically baffled by young black individuals who are well educated and whose families have obviously done a lot to separate themselves from the lower classes (much like middle class white families like my own), and yet they don't speak proper English and consistently say things like "losin up" instead of "loosen up". It just doesn't make sense to me. YOU HAVE AN EDUCATION. USE IT. And that applies to any ethnicity, it just so happens the person I'm speaking with at the moment is black-- it drives me up the wall when anyone does it.
Of course, he just thinks I'm being an asshole and that I should (as I said earlier) "losin up".
I'm also pissed about this, and I'm going to LJ cut because I feel the need to respond to every section of HB1, otherwise known as
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To amend Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to crimes against public health and morals, so as to make certain findings of fact; to define certain terms; to provide that any abortion shall be unlawful; to provide a penalty; to provide for severance; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Crimes against public health. You know, not that overpopulation is a crime against public health. Just ask China. As for providing for severance... that seems a little ironic, don't you think? Though it is nice they care about our moral health as well as our public health. But what about personal physical and mental wellbeing? Does that count, too?
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to crimes against public health and morals, is amended by revising Article 5, relating to abortion, in its entirety as follows:
ʺARTICLE 5
16-12-140.
(a) The State of Georgia has the duty to protect all innocent life from the moment of conception until natural death. We know that life begins at conception. After three decades of legal human abortion, it is now abundantly clear that the practice has negatively impacted the people of this state in many ways, including economic, health, physical, psychological, emotional, and medical well-being. These, too, are areas of legitimate concern and duty of the state. The General Assembly therefore makes the following findings of fact:
The State of Georgia, I thought, had the duty to protect all innocent life period-- I suppose that's implied by the "until natural death" part. I do wonder, though, how they propose to take care of even more "lives" when they can't even take care of the ones currently residing in its own borders... According to the 2005 census, 9,072,576 people reside in Georgia; that's almost 33% of the US population right there. Now, this is a 10% rise since the previous census in 2000 so maybe they already started calculating fetuses in to this equation but I think not. For these 9,072,576 people, the median income is $42,421 which is just under the national average-- the percentage below poverty level, however, is at a beautiful 13.3% which is almost a full percentage point above the national poverty level of 12.5%. In 2000, almost 20% of Georgians were uninsured, and I'll all but guarantee you that number has at the very least stayed the same. Also, just to toss it out, the projected population is 363,584,435 by July of 2030(PDF).
(1) Justice Blackmun, writing for the majority in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), wrote: 'when those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man´s knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer [to the question of when life begins].' Now, 30 years later, the General Assembly knows the answer to that difficult question, and that answer is life begins at the moment of conception;
You know, they keep saying that and I keep asking them to show me how they know that and I just haven't seen any evidence. Unless you count sites like this, and it is on the internet so it must be true...
(2) A fetus is a person for all purposes under the laws of this state from the moment of conception;
Then let's charge it with loitering. Stealing. Vagrancy. Tell it to get a job. You see where I'm going with this. Joey will understand: WWKD? What Would Kant Do?
(3) Even if the answer to the question of when life begins were unclear, the Georgia Constitution, at Article I, Section I, Paragraph II, provides: 'Protection to person and property is the paramount duty of government and shall be impartial and complete. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws.' Because a fetus is a person, constitutional protection attaches at the moment of conception. It is therefore the duty of the General Assembly to protect the innocent life that is currently being taken;
This doesn't even cover what it starts out to cover. It seems to want to provide a legal, ethical, or moral (but hey, they're all the same, right?) solution to those who don't believe life begins at conception. I don't know about you, but I'm still not convinced...
(4) As a direct result of three decades of legalized abortion on demand, the nation has seen a dramatic rise in the incidence of child abuse and a dramatic weakening of family ties, with the infamous Roe v. Wade decision pitting mothers against their children and women against men;
Now, I'm not going to argue with the fact that it seems child abuse and domestic violence incidences have risen, but I will take issue with the fact that they say the rates have risen and not the rates of reporting. The Family Violence Prevention Fund reports(PDF) that it looks like women are more willing and able to report these incidences than in the past. Roe v. Wade was a decision handed down in 1973, over 30 years ago-- women have come a long way since then in asserting their independence and the lawn in assisting that independence. Family ties have weakened, but not because of abortion; hell, even Forbes had an article about divorce rates rising! As for mothers against their children, I'm not sure how that works. And women against men... well, I know men who are of the "pro life" stance who would beat their wives if they found out they were considering an abortion, but no worries, those women can't get away from the other ten children anyway.
(5) Studies of the three decades since Roe v. Wade have revealed that women have been deeply wounded psychologically, with one researcher reporting that 81 percent of the women who have had an abortion had a preoccupation with an aborted child, 54 percent had nightmares, 35 percent had perceived visitation with an aborted child, and 96 percent felt their abortion had taken a human life;
One: ALWAYS cite your sources. Jeez. I knew that when I was in high school. Two: Ask any doctor. Yes, there are women who suffer these things after an abortion, it's not a pleasant thing. Most of these women also don't want to get an abortion-- they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. I'm not sure I would feel I'd taken a life with an abortion, but I would be sad for the potential of a life, the potential for someone who might change the world. That being said, the potential alone does not grant someone the status of a person.
(6) Studies have shown that women who have had an abortion require psychological treatment of such symptoms as nervous disorders, sleep disturbances, and deep regrets, with 25 percent of one test group of women who have had abortions visiting a psychiatrist while only 3 percent of a control group did so;
See above. Also see this from Planned Parenthood: Risks and Side Effects
(7) Another random study showed that at least 19 percent of women who have had an abortion suffered from diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, with 50 percent suffering from many, but not all, symptoms of that disorder, and 20 to 40 percent of the women studied showed moderate to high levels of stress and avoidance behavior relative to their abortion experience;
Aaand see above again. Doctors do tell them these things. They also recommend seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist afterwards.
(8) Approximately 60 percent of women who have had an abortion and who reported post-abortion trauma also reported suicidal tendencies with 28 percent actually attempting suicide, of whom half attempted suicide two or more times;
(9) Abortion results in increased tobacco smoking, and women who have had an abortion are twice as likely to become heavy smokers and suffer the corresponding health problems as women who have never had an abortion;
I'm sorry, but this just seems a little silly to me seeing as one of the side effects of not having an abortion when you really honest to god need one is DEATH. Really, as much as lung cancer sucks, if I can get my life together to maybe have a kid before I spiral downwards in to the oblivion, I probably won't start smoking. Or maybe I'll stop. Who knows?
(10) Abortion is linked to alcohol and drug abuse, with a two-fold increase in the risk of alcohol abuse among women who have had an abortion and a significant increase in drug abuse;
(11) Most couples find abortion to be an event which shatters their relationship, causing chronic marital troubles and divorce;
Did you also know the same thing happens to couples who lose a child due to miscarriage or death at any age? Funny how that happens. Maybe we should just make death in general illegal. Oh, you know what else is funny? GA supports the death penalty... just sayin
(12) Abortion exploits women, treating them and their children as mere property, and abortion is contrary to feminist values, and the great suffragette Susan B. Anthony referred to abortion as 'child murder';
Now, no offense to Susan B., she's a cool lady and I like what she did for our half of the species, buuuut I didn't ask for her opinion. Nor do I appreciate a party who didn't want women to vote using a quote from one of the suffragettes to make their case. It's just wrong. Also, she was a proponent of women having equal rights. If one were to say that abortion exploits women by being allowed, wouldn't disallowing the same thing still treat them as property? Like, saying that you could shoe a certain kind of horse and couldn't another. The horse doesn't have any say either way, he just either gets the shoe or has to limp around town for a while until Mr. Ed shows up and chats up congress.
(13) Thirty years of abortion on demand have resulted in an increase in breast cancer, and a study has shown that women who had an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy before experiencing a full-term pregnancy may be at increased risk for breast cancer;
You know, a lot of things say that such and such is the reason for the rise in breast cancer, and honestly they think that frequent periods are a cause of breast cancer, so screw you guys me and my breasteses are going to be ok with an abortion because one of the other things that causes it is part of our natural process, asshole.
(14) The practice of abortion has had a profound detrimental effect on the health and well-being of the citizens of this state as well as the health of the economy; and
See, you're not listening to me on that whole population growth thing. What are you going to do when these women have all these babies and YOU have to insure them? It's just not working, GA, just not working at all.
(15) The practice of abortion has caused the citizens of this state an inestimable amount economically including, but not limited to, the costs and tax burden of having to care for individuals and their families for the conditions cited above, as well as a significant reduction of the tax base and of the availability of workers, entrepreneurs, teachers, employees, and employers that would have significantly contributed to the prosperity of this state.
Yep, because sending women home to stay with the children doesn't cost us any of these things-- nor does state sponsored day care or medical programs for the children of people who couldn't afford to have children but had to because a certain procedure was illegal.
(b) As used in this Code section, the term:
(1) 'Abortion' means the intentional termination of human pregnancy with an intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus; provided, however, that if a physician makes a medically justified effort to save the lives of both the mother and the fetus and the fetus does not survive, such action shall not be an abortion. Such term does not include a naturally occurring expulsion of a fetus known medically as a 'spontaneous abortion' and popularly as a 'miscarriage' so long as there is no human involvement whatsoever in the causation of such event.
You know, this actually soothes my nerves a little bit-- as long as non-human pregnancies can be performed, the race will survive. We win! Also, what about 'miscarriage' is popular? And what if a man throws his wife down the stairs? Do we charge him with assault and abortion?
(2) 'Fetus' means a person at any point of development from and including the moment of conception through the moment of birth. Such term includes all medical or popular designations of an unborn child from the moment of conception such as zygote, embryo, homunculus, and similar terms.
OK, I can live with this definition.
(c) The practice of abortion is contrary to the health and well-being of the citizens of this state and to the state itself and is illegal in this state in all instances.
(d) Any person performing an abortion in this state shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided in subsection (d) of Code Section 16-5-1. The license of any physician indicted for an alleged violation of this Code section shall be suspended until resolution of the matter. The license of any physician convicted of a violation of this Code section shall be permanently revoked. The provisions of this Code section shall be in addition to any other provisions relating to the killing of a fetus or any other person.ʺ
SECTION 2.
If any portion of this Act is found to be unconstitutional by the courts, the remaining portions of this Act shall remain in full force and effect.
Say what?
SECTION 3.
This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.
SECTION 4.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
And, while I have your attention, I'd like to briefly quote the Abortion Surveillance report from the CDC.
Interpretation: From 1990 through 1997, the number of legal induced abortions gradually declined. In 1998 and in 1999, the number of abortions continued to decrease when comparing the same 48 reporting areas. In 1998, as in previous years, deaths related to legal induced abortions occurred rarely.
Public Health Action: Abortion surveillance in the United States should continue so that trends and characteristics of women who obtain legal induced abortions can be examined and efforts to prevent unintended pregnancy can be enhanced.
For those of you who don't know, the CDC is headquartered in Atlanta. You know, the capitol of Georgia.