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Stop Georgia's Sex and Race Selection Bill
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    1. The Governor of GA (+ 1 other)
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      • The Governor of GA
      • The GA State House
  2. Created By
    Pema Levy
    Washington, DC
About this Petition Petition Letter

On March 26, 2010, the Georgia State Senate approved the Anti-Choice Sex and Race Selection Bill by a vote of 33-14.

Help stop this bill before it passes the House and becomes law.

In its current form, SB 529 would make it a crime to "coerce" a woman to have an abortion; with the definition of "coercion" based on eyewitness accounts.

This bill takes the private decision of a woman to legally terminate her pregnancy, and opens up her private life to witch-hunts and the accusations of angry parties. This choice belongs to one person only; the question of coercion is both insulting to women - particularly women of color being targeted by the bill - and dangerous as a radical anti-choice law.

Send a message to the Georgia House and that we will not tolerate this assault on women's rights.

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Stop Georgia House Bill 1155, The Sex and Race Selection Bill

Greetings,

To the Representatives of the State House of Georgia,

Senate Bill 529 which passed the Georgia State Senate on March 26, 2010 is an affront women's legal right to obtain an abortion and an insult to her ability to be able to make that decision.

Reproductive freedom is the freedom to privacy and self-determination - yet this bill puts that privacy in the courtroom where anyone who is accused of "coercion" can be saddled with criminal charges. And this bill insults women's ability to determine their own future and control their own bodies. It is truly an affront to women's equality.

If Georgia's legislators believe, as I do, that there is a connection between high abortion rates and a lack of health care and reproductive services, vote down this insulting bill. Instead, support legislation that would increase care for all women, and reduce the rate of abortion through opportunity, not deprivation.

This country has a history of racism, particularly of denying African Americans the rights and services they are entitled. Bills like this follow in that tradition, and must not pass.

Sincerely,

[Your name]

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