Personhood Amendment Favored In Georgia Republican Primary Straw Poll

WTVM News and a press release from Georgia Right To Life report that in Tuesday's primary election in Georgia, the Republican primary ballot in 47 counties included a non-binding vote on a "personhood" amendment to the state constitution. The question read: "Do you support an amendment to the Georgia state constitution so as to provide that the paramount right to life is vested in each human being from the earliest biological beginning until natural death?" In Butts county, the Democratic primary ballot also contained the same question. The measure passed in every county. The lowest support was in DeKalb County (60%), while the highest support was in Jeff Davis County (92%). Georgia Right To Life plans to use the straw poll results to encourage the legislature to place a Personhood constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2012.