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    Planned Parenthood Responds to Plans for New Georgia Law

    ATLANTA - Planned Parenthood responded to plans by one state lawmaker to introduce legislation that would make it a felony for anyone to buy or sell tissue from an aborted fetus in Georgia.

    Representative Wendell Willard, R-Sandy Springs, announced Monday he will introduce the bill during the upcoming legislative session in January.  It would carry a penalty of five years in prison.

    "I think the extreme of what's being done needs to be recognized as against the strongest statement we make under public policy," said Willard. 

    Under the current state code, aborted fetuses must be disposed of by cremation or burial.  Clinics must report to the state's Commissioner of Public Health the manner in which they dispose of every aborted fetus.

    Willard, however, is concerned that a separate law (O.C.G.A 16-12-160) may leave a loophole that would allow abortion providers to donate fetal tissue and