Under the bill, an unborn child is "an individual human being from conception [which happens when a sperm fertilizes an ovum] until live birth." While abortion is the primary target of this proposal, this language has the potential to extend beyond abortion and into assisted reproductive technologies, like in vitro fertilization. And the people who very much want to become pregnant may soon find their right to procreate restricted by criminal laws protecting embryos.
"Let me be plain: this is a grotesque distortion of medical ethics and human decency. That any law in Georgia could be interpreted to require a brain-dead woman's body to be artificially maintained as a fetal incubator is not only medically unsound, it is inhumane."
