State of Georgia Declares 'Killing a Living Child is Not Healthcare'

Calvin Freiburger : Aug 22, 2019
LifeSiteNews.com

"Healthcare" is traditionally defined as the treatment of physical or mental illness or injury, to prolong life and restore or maximize an individual's physical or mental well-being. Abortion, by contrast, is the intentional killing of one individual (the child) for the perceived benefit of another individual (his or her mother).

(Atlanta, GA) — [Lifesitenews.com] As Georgia fights to defend the legality of its ban on aborting babies with beating hearts, state Attorney General Chris Carr took the opportunity to affirm that Georgia does not recognize abortion as a legitimate form of medical practice. (Image: 3-D Ultrasound /via LifeSiteNews)

"It is well-settled that 'a fetus is a living organism within the womb, whether or not it is viable outside the womb,'" the Republican AG argued in a motion filed Monday in US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. "Accordingly, a State may properly recognize that an unborn child is alive even before 'viability' and—consistent with its power to protect unborn life—may prohibit the killing of that child by restricting certain types of pre-viability abortions."

"Defendants [meaning the state] deny all allegations in the complaint that killing a living unborn child constitutes 'medical care' or 'health care,'" Carr declared... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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