{"id":1048658,"date":"2024-10-07T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048658"},"modified":"2024-10-07T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:00:02","slug":"because-of-donald-trump-health-care-for-millions-of-georgia-women-thrown-into-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/because-of-donald-trump-health-care-for-millions-of-georgia-women-thrown-into-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Because of Donald Trump, Health Care for Millions of Georgia Women Thrown Into Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today, following the Georgia Supreme Court reinstating<\/a> the extreme abortion ban Donald Trump enabled<\/a> in the state, DNC Spokesperson Maddy Mundy released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce again, women in Georgia have lost their fundamental right to access reproductive care and Donald Trump is to blame. Trump \u2018proudly\u2019 orchestrated the overturn of Roe v. Wade, <\/em>and now, women are once again no longer safe in Georgia. Women in Georgia are dying under this ban. With this decision, women and medical professionals across the state are trapped in a dangerous cycle of chaos and confusion as MAGA Republicans continue to force the government in between a woman and her doctor. If Donald Trump and JD Vance reach the White House, they will enact their dangerous Project 2025 agenda and ban abortion nationwide, while threatening IVF and contraception access. Georgia voters and Americans across the country will put a stop to Donald Trump\u2019s relentless attacks on women\u2019s reproductive rights this November as they elect Vice President Harris and Governor Walz.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is the reason Georgians live under a cruel law that bans abortion before many women know they\u2019re pregnant and threatens jail time. And he\u2019s proud of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>: \u201cThe state Supreme Court reinstated Georgia\u2019s restrictive abortion law<\/strong>, one week after a Fulton County Superior Court judge ruled the law was unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI was proudly the person responsible for the ending of \u2026 <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slate<\/a>: \u201cGeorgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Receive Life in Prison.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn Tuesday, Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a \u2018fetal heartbeat\u2019 bill that seeks to outlaw abortion after about six weeks. The measure, HB 481, is the most extreme abortion ban in the country\u2014not just because it would impose severe limitations on women\u2019s reproductive rights, but also because it would subject women who get illegal abortions to life imprisonment and the death penalty.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cGeorgia Supreme Court Allows State\u2019s Six-Week Abortion Ban to Remain in Effect\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ruling means that abortion remains banned in the state, with limited exceptions, after the sixth week of pregnancy \u2014 a point when most women have not yet even realized they are pregnant.<\/strong> With North Carolina now banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, South Carolina after six weeks, and Florida doing the same, pending a legal challenge, the ruling ensures that abortion will be largely inaccessible in the Deep South, forcing women there to travel farther for care<\/strong>, to more distant states like Virginia or Illinois.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cMonica Simpson, executive director of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, the lead plaintiff in the case, called the Tuesday decision \u2018devastating.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018This abortion ban has forced Georgians to travel across state lines at great expense or continue the life-altering consequences of pregnancy and childbirth against their wills,<\/strong>\u2019 she said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia Recorder<\/a>: \u201cMore consequentially, it raises risks for women who want to end their pregnancies and those who help them do so. Abortion rights advocates express concerns that murder charges could be leveled against abortion patients along with conspiracy charges against people who help them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporting shows that abortion bans are delaying critical emergency care across the country, leading to two women dying in Georgia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ProPublica<\/a>: \u201cAbortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother\u2019s Death Was Preventable.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut ProPublica obtained reports that confirm that at least two women have already died after they couldn\u2019t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThurman\u2019s case marks the first time an abortion-related death, officially deemed \u2018preventable,\u2019 is coming to public light\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut since abortion was banned or restricted in 22 states over the past two years, women in serious danger have been turned away from emergency rooms and told that they needed to be in more peril before doctors could help. <\/strong>Some have been forced to continue high-risk pregnancies that threatened their lives. Those whose pregnancies weren\u2019t even viable have been told they could return when they were \u2018crashing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia\u2019s abortion ban disproportionately hurts Black women \u2014 in a state where the Black maternal mortality rate is already unacceptably high.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11Alive<\/a>: \u201cIt also provides a look at who the bill may impact the most: Black people, younger patients and those with less education. Researchers said with the new restrictions, many of these patients won’t be able to access safe, legal abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Lack of access to safe and legal abortion could also add to the maternal mortality rate in Georgia,\u2019 Mosley said, \u2018with numbers showing a possible increase of 18%.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn 2019, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, Georgia had the worst maternal mortality ratio of any state in the country. Black, American Indian\/Alaska and Indigenous women are also two to three times more \u2018likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women.\u2019 Experts said overturning Roe v. Wade will disproportionately affect communities of color in Georgia, as for years, they have already faced many barriers to maternal health.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, following the Georgia Supreme Court reinstating the extreme abortion ban Donald Trump enabled in the state, DNC Spokesperson Maddy Mundy released the following statement:  \u201cOnce again, women in Georgia have lost their fundamental right to access reproductive care and Donald Trump is to blame. Trump \u2018proudly\u2019 orchestrated the overturn of Roe v. 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