The dominos are beginning to fall! Coming on the heels of personhood battles in Colorado, Iowa, Alabama, and North Dakota, a bill is now in front of the Georgia State Senate that would put a personhood amendment to the state constitution on the 2014 general election ballot!

Thanks to the efforts of Georgia Right to Life, Senator Barry Loudermilk (R-Cassville) has filed the resolution that will take the first step towards ending abortion in the peach state.

“Personhood is the human rights issue of the 21st century…At least 55 million children have been killed since 1973, including 1.5 million in Georgia. A society that claims compassion for the innocent can no longer tolerate this slaughter.”
-Dan Becker, GRTL (Georgia Right to Life) President

This bill is the first shot fired in what is sure to be a battle that will last until election day 2014. The big-abortion machine is coming out in full force and you can bet that PersonhoodUSA and our supporters from Georgia and across the country will be out in full force to fight back.

Those on the pro-abortion left are seeing their worst nightmare come true: the citizens of the U.S. are starting to rise up to defend the unborn and they are increasing pro-life support in the process.

In the wake of such inspiring state efforts, I want to thank you for your outstanding support for PersonhoodUSA. Your tireless efforts are helping save millions of lives and for that I am very grateful. But until the fight is won for good, we have a lot of work to do and I look forward to working with you every day!

My Warmest Thanks in Our Continued Fight for Life,

Keith Mason
Founder
Personhood USA

A great video that will make you think about what makes a person. Click here.

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Montgomery, AL – The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that a chemical endangerment statute must protect children who have not been born yet. The strongly worded ruling is the most important affirmation of the personhood of the pre-born child since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The case was appealed to the AL Supreme Court by Amanda Kimbrough, a mother who admits that she smoked meth three days before her baby was born at 25 weeks. Tragically, baby Timmy lived for only a few minutes. The autopsy showed that the baby died from methamphetamine exposure.

“The Alabama Supreme Court has dealt a massive blow to the constitutional fraud of Roe v. Wade by recognizing that the preborn child is a person,” explained Personhood USA Legal Analyst Gualberto Garcia Jones, J.D. “This is yet another confirmation that the fight for personhood is targeting the Achilles’ heel of the abortion industry and Roe v. Wade.”

Kimbrough’s attorney had previously debated Personhood Alabama founding member Attorney Ben DuPre on CNN. Kimbrough’s attorney claimed in the interview that their case hinged upon the fact that the law regarding methamphetamine exposure to children did not apply to unborn children, only to born children.

The New York Times covered Kimbrough’s case in in April, when she was found guilty of a Class A felony. The article quoted assistant district attorney Angela Hulsey as stating, “She caused the death of another person, a person that will never have the chance to go to school, go to the prom, get married, have children of their own. You’re dealing with the most innocent of victims.”

The Alabama Supreme Court agreed with Hulsey, stating in their ruling that, “The decision of this Court today is in keeping with the widespread legal recognition that unborn children are persons with rights that should be protected by law.”

“The Alabama Supreme Court ruling is a monumental victory for the personhood rights of preborn children,” affirmed Personhood Alabama member Dan Becker. “Personhood Alabama is committed to continuing our fight for the rights of every baby in Alabama.”

Personhood Alabama is a chapter of Personhood USA, an organization established to seek protection for the personhood rights of every human being, born and unborn.. In April of 2012, Personhood Alabama delivered a copy of Ray Comfort’s groundbreaking film “180” to every Alabama legislator.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Supporters of granting personhood rights to human embryos asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to reverse a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that stopped the proposed constitutional amendment.

Personhood USA asked the nation’s highest court to allow Oklahoma citizens to circulate and collect signatures to support a ballot measure that would place the issue before voters, alleging “it was error for the Oklahoma Supreme Court to assume the power to strike a proposed law before it had been enacted.”

The state Supreme Court ruled that the ballot question, if approved, would unconstitutionally ban abortion. The group’s 34-page petition said that decision was contrary to rulings in similar cases by the U.S. Supreme Court that determined courts should not invalidate state statutes “based upon a worst-case analysis that may never occur.”

“The Oklahoma Supreme Court violated these basic rules of judicial review, frustrating the intent and infringing the right of the sovereign people of Oklahoma,” the petition says.

Keith Mason, founder of Personhood USA, a national anti-abortion advocacy group, said the state Supreme Court’s decision effectively denied Oklahomans the opportunity to debate and vote on the proposed amendment.

“This is about equal access to the democratic process,” Mason said. “No citizen can be blocked from expressing their views on such a critical issue as life.”

The personhood ballot measure, Initiative Petition 395, would grant human embryos the rights and privileges of citizens in Oklahoma. It is similar to a measure filed in the Oklahoma Legislature that lawmakers didn’t approve this year.

Supporters have said their goal is to set up a legal challenge to the landmark Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 that gave women a legal right to abortion. Similar personhood measures have been proposed in other states.

The Oklahoma ballot measure was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of several Oklahoma doctors and residents who opposed it. Opponents claimed it would effectively ban abortions without exception and interfere with a woman’s right to use certain forms of contraception and medical procedures, such as in vitro fertilization.

In a unanimous ruling on April 30, the state Supreme Court sided with opponents and said to define a fertilized human egg as a person “is clearly unconstitutional.”

Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, called Personhood USA’s appeal an attack on the reproductive rights of women.

“The proponents of this measure have made explicit the ultimate objective of the anti-reproductive rights movement: to strip all Americans of their constitutional right to make their own decisions about whether and when to have children,” Northrup said in a statement on the organization’s website.

“They’re coming after birth control. They would make access to abortion illegal in all circumstances. They would even threaten the ability of couples with fertility problems to seek medical assistance in starting a family,” Northrup said.

“Regardless of whether these assaults take aim at one particular reproductive health service or all at once, they all must be regarded as serious threats to the constitutional rights of all Americans. And they must be decisively rejected as such,” she said.