Stacey Abrams spoke during a campaign in Reynolds, Georgia on June 4. 04.30 Dustin Chambers / Bloomberg / Getty Images
Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s Democratic nominee for governor, has called for a legislative solution to restore access to abortion across the country following the Supreme Court ruling overturning Rowe v. Wade, saying “allowing each state to decide that quality of your citizenship is wrong.
Georgia has its own restrictive abortion law, which prohibits abortion when a “fetal heartbeat” can be detected about six weeks after pregnancy. Unlike states with so-called trigger laws, which were created to take effect as soon as such a Supreme Court decision was issued, Georgia’s law had already been passed and signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, but then suspended by federal courts as unconstitutional.
But now that the Supreme Court’s precedent has been overturned, Atlanta’s 11th District Court of Appeals will soon be ready to allow the law to take effect.
“Women deserve physical autonomy, they deserve the right to make that choice,” Abrams told CNN’s Jake Tapper in The State of the Union, adding: “Especially in Georgia, in a few days, this six-week ban will be the law of the land.” This is awful, this is awful and it is wrong. As the next governor, I will do my best to turn it around.
Abrams said President Biden “must do what is within the executive’s view”, but stressed the need for “a legislative solution to restore the constitutional protection of women, regardless of the country in which they live”.
“I believe there should be a federal law that allows women to have that choice, to have reproductive choice and reproductive justice, and I think it should stop being political football, where the ideology of the leader of the state can determine the quality of life for a woman and her ability to make the choices she needs, ”Abrams added.
Abrams advised businesses to consider the healthcare challenges Georgia’s staff will face after the six-week abortion ban begins, noting that abortion restrictions are likely to tighten if Republican Gov. Brian Kemp wins another term.
“I would tell every business and every woman to do what is best for the women who work for them. “They need to make sure they are addressing the real health challenges facing women in Georgia,” Abrams said.
She added that Georgia has refused to expand Medicaid and has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country, reiterating that citizens and businesses must “take into account the danger that Brian Kemp poses to the lives and well-being of women in this state. “
Abrams said Kemp had already shown his “ambiguity” about birth control and that it was “very, very dangerous for women in Georgia right now,” as laws regulating access to birth control were expected to be the next step for Republicans across the country.
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