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Georgia Right to Life Forms National Pro-Life Group

June 17th, 2014

Georgia Right to Life is creating a new national pro-life organization. The new group comes after National Right to Life recently decided to cut ties with Georgia Right to Life.

Founders say the National Personhood Alliance will focus on protecting all innocent human beings. In addition to abortion, Georgia Right to Life co-executive director Genevieve Wilson says the alliance will actively oppose things like cloning, embryonic stem cell research and physician assisted suicide.

“The pro-life movement needs to move into the 21^st century. Science and technology has made unbelievable strides over the last 40 years, but they have also gotten into areas that raise serious moral and ethical questions regarding the sanctity of human life.”

Wilson says members of the alliance will include pro-life organizations, leaders and faith-based groups. Like Georgia Right to Life, the alliance will oppose exceptions in abortion legislation for rape and incest. One of the reasons National Right to Life ousted Georgia Right to Life is because the group actively battled against a 20-week abortion ban that passed the U.S. House. In the final version, the bill included exceptions for rape or incest. Meanwhile, National Right to Life supported the measure.

Wilson says the decision to create the alliance was not based on National Right to Life’s decision to drop Georgia Right to Life as one of its affiliates.

One organization already pledging to support the alliance is Cleveland Right to Life. President Molly Smith says her organization is joining the alliance because it believes the new strategy is a game-changer for the pro-life movement.

“We’ve been doing the same thing for 40 years, and when you continue to do the same thing over and over again and not get the results you are hoping for, it’s time to look for a new strategy, and when Georgia presented us with this opportunity it was a no-brainer for us.”

Smith says her group has never been affiliated with National Right to Life but the national organization said it was severing ties with Cleveland Right to Life after the group battled with U.S. Senator Rob Portman over gay marriage.

WABE contacted National Right to Life but did not get a response by deadline. The National Personhood Alliance will officially form during a conference that will be held in Atlanta in October.