---
title: "Georgia Life Alliance support for HB 481 (LIFE Act heartbeat bill with exceptions and immunity for women)"
description: "Single-organization statement from Georgia Life Alliance, 2019, to Georgia Legislature. Composite 8/12 — explicit incrementalist endorsement. “explicitly protect women from prosecution”"
type: "letter"
letter_id: "PL-2019-002"
date: "2019"
letter_type: "Single-organization statement"
lead_org: "Georgia Life Alliance"
recipient: "Georgia Legislature"
topic: "Heartbeat bill"
shortfall_type: "incrementalist_endorsement_explicit"
composite: 8
verification: "primary"
signature_rows: 1
primary_url: "https://www.georgialifealliance.com/georgia-heartbeat-bill"
source_url: "https://www.abhortion.org/letters/pl-2019-002.html"
---

# Georgia Life Alliance support for HB 481 (LIFE Act heartbeat bill with exceptions and immunity for women)

**Single-organization statement** · 2019 · Explicit incrementalist endorsement · composite 8 / 12 · Primary source

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Letter ID | PL-2019-002 (formerly L14) |
| Date | 2019 |
| Lead organization | [Georgia Life Alliance](../letters/orgs/o046.md) |
| Recipient | Georgia Legislature |
| Topic | Heartbeat bill |
| Type | Single-organization statement |
| Verification | Primary source |
| Signature rows | 1 |
| Completeness | Single organization |

## Key language

> “explicitly protect women from prosecution” — Georgia Life Alliance, 2019

## Scorecard

Composite **8 of 12** — explicit incrementalist endorsement. Each dimension is scored 0 (none), 1 (implied) or 2 (explicit); the rationale is the editor's one-line reason for every non-zero score. D2 and D4 are the fault line the abolitionist critique cares most about.

| Dimension | Score | Meaning at this score | Rationale |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| D1 Exceptions | 2 | Explicitly supports rape, incest or health exceptions | Bill has rape/incest exceptions. |
| D2 Immunity for the mother (fault line) | 2 | Explicitly opposes prosecuting or criminalizing women | Bill immunizes women. |
| D3 Incrementalism | 2 | Explicitly endorses a regulatory or gestational bill instead of abolition | Gestational regulation. |
| D4 Opposition to abolition or equal-protection bills (fault line) | 0 | None | — |
| D5 Framing | 0 | None | — |
| D6 Secular framing | 2 | Wholly secular, legal, fiscal, medical or political argument | Legal framing. |

## Spokesperson

1 signature row · **Single organization.** A single-organization record; the spokesperson row is illustrative, not a signature block.

| # | Name as printed | Title as printed | Organization as printed |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | — | — | [Georgia Life Alliance](../letters/orgs/o046.md) |

## Organizations on this letter

1 distinct organization, after normalizing renamed and affiliated entities.

- [Georgia Life Alliance](../letters/orgs/o046.md) — Advocacy or other, GA

## Sources

- [georgialifealliance.com/georgia-heartbeat-bill](https://www.georgialifealliance.com/georgia-heartbeat-bill) — Primary source (https://www.georgialifealliance.com/georgia-heartbeat-bill)

## Editorial note

The rubric records distance from the standard published by Abolitionists Rising, not a moral verdict; every organization scored here regards itself as pro-life. Scores are judgment calls applied consistently by the published rubric.