Georgia Alliance for Life opposes abolishing abortion in Georgia

Georgia state lawmakers recently heard HB 441, the Georgia Prenatal Equal Protection Act, which would abolish abortion by establishing equal protection of the laws for preborn babies.

Christian ministries, conservative grassroots organizations, Republican leaders, pastors and churches, and several other parties supporting HB 441 made known in a coalition letter to lawmakers that “Georgia laws denying equal protection to the preborn are a clear and blatant violation” of the United States Constitution and, more importantly, the higher Law of God.

A notable exception was Georgia Life Alliance, the largest Pro-Life group in the state and an affiliate of National Right to Life. Georgia Life Alliance not only refused to support HB 441, but also worked behind the scenes against the bill, trying to persuade state lawmakers to oppose it.

In the days before the Georgia House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee heard HB 441, members received a two-page letter from Georgia Life Alliance asking them to vote against the proposal.

🚨 We have learned that @GALifeAlliance sent a letter to Georgia state lawmakers urging them to oppose HB 441, the Georgia Prenatal Equal Protection Act, which would abolish abortion in the state. pic.twitter.com/c4Yz5tr5WF

— Foundation to Abolish Abortion (@AbolitionistFAA) April 10, 2025

Second Victims of Abortion?

The letter made the claim that “the mother who aborts her child is also a victim of a callous industry created to take lives” and noted the “physical and psychological damage” women can experience after abortion.

Throughout the letter, Georgia Life Alliance conflates the victim of the crime with the perpetrator by calling both “unborn children and their mothers” victims of abortion. What they fail to acknowledge entirely is that thousands of mothers in the state of Georgia are knowingly, willingly, and without coercion seeking out and procuring abortions.

Conservative estimates indicate that more than 37,000 mothers are murdering their preborn children by abortion on Georgia soil each year, not to mention the additional 14,000 mothers in Georgia who travel to other states to murder their children. While there are some women who are forced into abortion, the vast majority are willfully taking abortion pills, which are the leading method of abortion in Georgia and throughout the country.

These abortion pills indeed do not take themselves. They do not mail themselves to the houses of pregnant mothers and force themselves down their throats. They are willfully obtained and willfully ingested by thousands of women in Georgia every single year who murder their preborn children in the womb rather than take up the duty and responsibility of raising them.

Crime and Compassion

The letter also asserted that women who are seeking abortions “find themselves in desperate and challenging situations” which require “compassionate support, not punitive measures.”

Georgia Life Alliance likewise said that “imposing criminal penalties on women could lead to unsafe, unregulated abortions,” as if Georgia should instead have safe and regulated abortions.

The letter pitted Christian charity against criminal justice. In reality, however, there is no contradiction between Christians serving women who are tempted toward abortion because of a difficult circumstance and Christians demanding equal protection for preborn babies.

There are thousands of Christians in the state of Georgia and beyond who serve pregnant women through their home churches and through pregnancy resource centers, yet thousands are choosing to murder their babies anyway.

While believers can certainly serve and bless needy pregnant mothers, the conduct of murdering a baby in the womb must also be prohibited, or else the murder of preborn babies will continue. The duty of the state is to wield the sword against evildoers, not to turn a blind eye to evil while expecting Christian charity to sufficiently deter evil, especially the murder of innocent people.

No Consequences?

The letter falsely asserted that the equal protection bill “does not address or hold accountable the abortionist, the pimp, the sex trafficker, and the irresponsible man who will face no consequence and continue to prey on women and girls for their own selfish gain.”

Georgia Life Alliance is simply wrong about this. HB 441 does not single out women for prosecution. The legislation only removes the exception that gives women complete legal immunity when they abort their own babies and extends the existing laws against homicide and assault to protect preborn people in the same way that they already protect born people.

HB 441 removes existing partiality from the law rather than adding more. This means any abortionist, sex trafficker, father, or mother who is found, after presumption of innocence and due process of law, to be guilty of murdering a preborn baby would be held accountable.

This misrepresentation falsely implies that proponents of HB 441 have a specific vendetta against women.

Rather than keeping provisions in Georgia laws which give complete legal immunity to women who willfully murder their preborn babies, Pro-Life organizations like Georgia Life Alliance should support laws that treat prenatal homicide justly for everyone involved. This would deter many women from ever getting abortions in the first place.

With organizations like Georgia Life Alliance working overtime to oppose equal protection legislation, Christians must rise up and speak boldly on behalf of their preborn neighbors.