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Lawrenceville, GA – Voters in 46 counties in the state of Georgia overwhelmingly cast a nonbinding vote in favor of an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution supporting the pro-life “Personhood” amendment. With the counties averaging 75 percent approval, every single county that presented the amendment passed it. While most of the votes were taken on the Republican primary, a Democratic ballot in Butts County also asked the question, and it approved the amendment by 71 percent. The amendment states the “right to life is vested in each human being from their earliest biological beginning until natural death” and that right should be protected by law.

Georgia is the first state in the nation where voters have said “Yes” to the Personhood question. Georgia Right to Life and other pro-lifers plan to lobby the Georgia legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the general election ballot in 2012. “There is no question that the people of Georgia would pass a Personhood Amendment,” said Dan Becker, president of Georgia Right to Life. “The ball is now in the legislature’s hands to allow the people a voice on the most pressing human rights issue of the 21st century,” Becker concluded. Mississippi already has the question on the 2011 ballot, following a successful petition drive.

Mathew Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: “The right to life is the right of all rights. The right to property, speech or religion means nothing to a corpse. Without the right to life, all other rights are illusory. We must restore a culture of life in America. Georgia voters have taken a step in the right direction. I call upon the Georgia legislature to place ‘personhood’ on the ballot and let the people vote.”

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