Georgia mom wants lawmakers to pass 'Paramount Right to Life' amendment

Georgia mom wants lawmakers to pass 'Paramount Right to Life' amendment

A Georgia mother is working with state lawmakers on a measure that has one main goal: the total elimination of abortion in America.

A total ban on abortion would first have to begin with a repeal of the1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion. But Jenny Hodges knows the only way to do that is for the courts to recognize that every human life begins at the moment of conception, and therefore deserves all the rights and protections that any human enjoys.

The mother and housewife is working with Georgia legislators to pass what is called the "Paramount Right to Life" Amendment. HR 536 establishes that human life begins at conception, and every child at every stage of gestation is a human being.

"It is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade," says the Georgia pro-lifer. "In the [1973] decision Justice Harry Blackmun wrote, '(If the) suggestion of personhood [of the preborn] is established, the [abortion rights] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment,'" notes Hodges. "So HR 536 basically establishes the personhood of the preborn."

Hodges says although the next legislative season is seven months away, she and others in the Peach State are trying to spread the word about this amendment.

"I'm asking that the people of Georgia get involved with this," she urges. "This is very crucial -- a lot of the country is looking to Georgia now to attempt to get this established that we have the right to life from the very moment our life exists. So the right to life has to begin when life begins."

Hodges is not alone in her quest. Georgia Right to Life vice president Daniel Becker says in a press release that HR 536 will be "the centerpiece of our legislative efforts" in the upcoming 2008 legislative session. The bill uses language provided by the Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center.