Members of the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade almost three years ago, but abortion levels have actually increased nationwide ever since.
The state of Georgia is no exception.
Christian advocates for the preborn were reminded of that sorrowful truth on Wednesday when some lawmakers reacted viscerally against a bill to equally protect preborn babies under the law.
The Georgia Prenatal Equal Protection Act, also known as House Bill 441, would simply apply the same laws that already protect born people from conduct like murder, assault, and battery to protect preborn people as well, effectively abolishing abortion in the state.
The idea is that anyone who willfully chooses to murder a preborn baby would face the exact same penalties as anyone who willfully chooses to murder a born baby, thereby upholding the equal value and dignity of babies in the womb.
Such legislation is desperately needed.
One estimate from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion found that there were about 52,000 abortions in 2024 from Georgia parents in the form of telehealth abortions, clinician-provided abortions in the state, and clinician-provided abortions outside of the state.
That’s about 1,000 abortions every single week.
It’s also a substantial increase from the roughly