Press Release Nevada
Press Release
NARAL Pro-Choice Georgia Condemns U.S. Supreme Court Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade
For Immediate Release: Friday, June 24, 2022
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Atlanta — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision to uphold Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the constitutional right to abortion in the United States as we know it.
NARAL Pro-Choice America Southeast Campaigns Director Alicia Stallworth released the following statement in response:
“The anti-choice supermajority on the Supreme Court has done the unconscionable by overturning Roe v. Wade and opening the door for states, including Georgia, to move to ban abortion. This decision will harm millions of Georgians by allowing extremist politicians to push abortion care out of reach. However, our fight for reproductive freedom is far from over, and there is no doubt that this decision will galvanize voters in Georgia and across the country. NARAL Pro-Choice Georgia and our 78,000 members are ready to work alongside our partners in the state to build on the momentum of key electoral victories in 2020 and defend our freedom to decide if, when, and how to start or grow a family.”
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will have a sweeping and devastating impact. Now that Roe has been overturned, roughly half of the states in the country are at risk of banning abortion. Of those, 13 have “trigger bans” in place to ban abortion automatically. If other states predicted to ban abortion outright do so, Georgians are expected to see a 1,091% increase in driving distance when seeking abortion care.
The people who will be hurt most by the Supreme Court’s decision are those who already face barriers to accessing abortion care—including women; Black, Indigenous, and other people of color; those working to make ends meet; the LGBTQ+ community; immigrants; young people; those living in rural communities; and people with disabilities.
NARAL Pro-Choice Georgia and our nearly 54,000 members are already ramping up our work to elect candidates up and down the ballot who will take bold action to safeguard and expand abortion rights. In May, NARAL, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and EMILY’s List announced a partnership to collectively spend a historic $150 million on the 2022 midterms to ensure the election of reproductive freedom champions, and Georgia voters voted for more than 16 NARAL-endorsed lawmakers to win their primaries and advance to the general election in November. Read more about NARAL’s endorsed candidates here.
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For over 50 years, NARAL Pro-Choice America has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for every body. NARAL is powered by its more than 2.5 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.