Tunnel Hill, GA – Saturday the GRA State Convention overwhelmingly passed two resolutions. The first one opposed the concept of Physician Assisted Suicide which State Rep. Sharon Cooper (R-Cobb) considered in a hearing for her Public Health Committee earlier this year. This new program called “Medical Aid in Dying” would involve a patient receiving a lethal prescription from his or her physician. This is morally abhorrent and a slippery slope to non-voluntary lethal prescriptions, also known as euthanasia. Public campaign disclosures show that Rep. Cooper receives a good deal of financing from Big Pharma.
You can see the final version of the resolution, which the GRA membership passed here:
The second resolution passed affirmed support for the decriminalization of midwifery in Georgia. It stated: “GRA principles include support for free enterprise and the elimination of ‘intrusive government intervention in the marketplace’… and it is not the proper role of government to interfere or restrict a woman’s liberty to make decisions regarding where she gives birth or with whom she contracts to assist her in the birth of her baby[.]”
Many other states allow for midwives to practice freely, as they have successfully for the vast majority of human history all over the world, but in Georgia state law makes it very burdensome for midwives to be able to serve expectant mothers who wish to give birth at home rather than in a hospital. Once again, Big Pharma appears to want to maintain a corporate monopoly over this medical practice.
You can see the text of the final version of the resolution that passed in support of midwifery here:
