President Trump and Extreme Republican Lawmakers are Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Georgians
President Trump and Extreme Republican Lawmakers are Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Georgians
President Trump and Extreme Republican Lawmakers are Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Georgians
In Georgia, where women have historically faced some of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country, efforts to further ban or restrict abortion care – at both the state and national level – have exacerbated health outcomes and options for pregnant people. Georgia bans abortion after 6 weeks – before most women know they are pregnant – creating an incredibly difficult landscape for patients and providers alike. President Trump and anti-abortion Republican lawmakers say abortion should be “left to the states” but now they’re using federal power to ban it everywhere – from relentless attacks on medication abortion to a full on abortion ban for veterans – while Georgia lawmakers continue chipping away at Georgians’ reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy.
Abortion bans are killing women and at least two women have died as a result of Georgia’s abortion ban – and those are just the deaths we know of.
Over a dozen Georgia OBGYNs say they’ve personally observed cases where Georgia’s abortion ban led to injury or even the death of pregnant women.
As a result of abortion laws in Georgia, thousands of patients are frequently forced to travel out of state to access essential abortion care.
The Medicaid cuts included in Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” has impacted access to health care for an estimated 721,000 people across Georgia, many of whom rely on the program to access reproductive health care.