Jordan: “Personality” clause targets pregnant women.Kerr calls it ‘ridiculous’
ATLANTA — Republican Attorney General Chris Carr told 11Alive News that it was “absurd” to claim that pregnant women who self-induced abortion could be prosecuted under the state’s new restrictive abortion laws. ” he said.
The abortion issue has played a large role in the rivalry between Georgia Attorney General Carr and Democrat Jen Jordan, an attorney and state senator.
The Georgia Attorney General election lacks the money and attention that goes into the governor and senator elections. But polls show that the AG race issue is one of the most important to voters.
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“The government’s biggest problem is keeping people feeling safe and protected,” Carr said in an interview.
Kerr and Jordan have different views on the same issue.
“They obviously don’t feel safe because of gun violence, and they don’t feel safe going to the clinic,” Jordan said in an interview.
The Attorney General of Georgia is the state’s chief law enforcement officer. Whoever wins will deal with legal issues surrounding the state’s heart rate restriction laws, which ban abortion five to six weeks after conception when the fetal heartbeat is detected by ultrasound.
Jordan says a law giving fetuses personality status would make it easier for women to prosecute.
“We’re not just talking about criminal abortion laws. We’re talking about murder, manslaughter, and child abuse,” Jordan said. “We’re talking about all the laws in the Georgian Code, because now the embryo has as many rights as every woman. And if we apply that to the natural flow, There will be women who will be prosecuted.”
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Carr said the heartbeat bill’s enforcement language specifically targets doctors, not women.
“There is absolutely no conduct that suggests that a pregnant woman is prosecuted for anything. In fact, it is about the donor, not the pregnant woman,” Carr said. It’s ridiculous to anyone to suggest that a woman of 18 years old would be prosecuted under this law. Just read. Read the law.”
Jordan says the word “personality” has legal implications for pregnant women where it is not explicitly written into the law.
“That Kerr is now trying to change this law to something it’s not. That’s ridiculous,” Jordan said.
