Georgia lawmakers poised to pour $2m into 'fake abortion clinics' (Atlanta: renting, house)

[paris-on-ponce]

Georgia lawmakers poised to pour $2m into 'fake abortion clinics' | US news | The Guardian

As disgusting as this appears, I'll withhold further judgement until I can find this story elsewhere. Any link to this news story circles back to The Guardian. Not saying it's untrue, just that it doesn't seem to be getting coverage from other news agencies.

But, if it is true, good God.

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by paris-on-ponce

Georgia lawmakers poised to pour $2m into 'fake abortion clinics' | US news | The Guardian

As disgusting as this appears, I'll withhold further judgement until I can find this story elsewhere. Any link to this news story circles back to The Guardian. Not saying it's untrue, just that it doesn't seem to be getting coverage from other news agencies.

But, if it is true, good God.

The story is true. The sponsor of the bill, state Senator Renee Unterman of Buford, is actually one of the Georgia legislature Republican caucus' most progressive members and probably one of the most progressive members of the deeply-conservative Georgia legislature as a whole.

The bill is part of the typical election year pandering to the currently-dominant Georgia GOP's deeply conservative voting base which gets very unhappy if some type of significant anti-abortion bill is not passed into law in an election year. The bill also seems to be an attempt for many members of the Georgia legislature's Republican supermajority to fend off primary challenges while attempting to maximize voter turnout for incumbents in both the May GOP primaries and the November general election (for those relatively few GOP legislators that might have general election opposition).

Though this bill is different from other past election year anti-abortion bills in that the bill does not appear to attempt to restrict access to the actual abortion procedure itself.....So this anti-abortion bill is mild in that regard.

What more can I say? Abortion (this bill), God (religious liberty/RFRA bills), gays (religious liberty bills) and guns (Campus Carry bill)....Typical election year politics in a deeply-conservative Red state with an increasingly anxious conservative electorate.

Ga. Senate Passes Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Center Funding (WABE-FM Radio Atlanta)
Ga. Senate Passes Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Center Funding | WABE 90.1 FM

Grant Program for Anti-Abortion Centers Passes Georgia House (ABC News)
Grant Program for Anti-Abortion Centers Passes Georgia House - ABC News

Georgia’s pro-lifers try ‘something better’ to reduce abortions (Kyle Wingfield/Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Georgia’s pro-lifers try ‘something better’ to reduce abortions | Kyle Wingfield

From conservative columnist Kyle Wingfield of the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Among the base-pleasing issues Georgia’s GOP legislators traditionally unwrap in election years, one can usually count on some kind of abortion restriction. The release last summer of undercover videos accusing Planned Parenthood of selling fetal body parts only raised expectations for such a bill this year.

Instead, the anti-abortion approach during this legislative session has been conspicuous for its subtlety, perhaps the result of a revamped pro-life movement that is no less conservative, just less confrontational.

Forget talk of heartbeats or pain sensitivity. In its place have been bills to help nudge pregnant women toward choosing life. One such measure, Senate Bill 308, creates a “Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant” for nonprofit pregnancy support centers.

[Annie53]

Using taxpayer's dollars to support institutions that deliberately lie to and manipulate women.


Sure sounds like a war on women to me.....time for Republicans to own it.


If Republicans tell lies to manipulate women, what makes you think they won't tell lies to manipulate voters?

[Mattie]

Originally Posted by Annie53

Using taxpayer's dollars to support institutions that deliberately lie to and manipulate women.


Sure sounds like a war on women to me.....time for Republicans to own it.


If Republicans tell lies to manipulate women, what makes you think they won't tell lies to manipulate voters?

I, for one, am under no such delusions. This bill is right up there with the campus carry law IMO, making GA look attractive to certain conservative segments of the population, while sending highly educated professors, and possibly physicians, running for the state border.

[magnetar]

The legislature is increasingly spending their time on pandering to the most extreme flank of the Republican party. This is what happens when you give one party control of every branch of the state government, and they know they have no real chance of any opposition.

[Hokiehaven]

Embarrassing, enough with the combining church and state already, should be separate as intended, particularly with the use of the public's money.