The Right Rev. Robert Wright, the new Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Atlanta, has expressed support for the “personhood” amendment to the Georgia constitution, which would define life under state law as beginning at the moment of conception.
In a two-part interview with WABE radio in Atlanta, he said: “As someone who was adopted personally and as someone who has adopted, I am grateful, in a profound way, that … my mother, my biological mother, brought me to term, and gave me the opportunity to live the life that I have lived,” he said. “I am grateful to God for that.” He added that the personhood amendment could help shape thinking about the death penalty and eldercare.
Listen to part 1 of Wright’s WABE interview here, and part 2 here.