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Abortion love

“Abortion debate divides candidates in Georgia’s 6th District race,” reads the AJC headline. Calling it the “abortion debate” obscures the larger issues. On an individual level, we are all driven by a complicated set of values, life experiences and social norms that guide our own individual feelings about any number of issues, including abortion. On a policy level, however, there’s no debate: abortion care should be offered without stigma, shame or misinformation. And on this point,

Congressional District 6

Handel, Trump push anti-abortion, anti-woman policies

Karen Handel and Donald Trump have at least one thing in common: they are willing to throw women under the bus in order to promote their abortion-stigmatizing agendas. For Handel, her anti-abortion, anti-woman leadership was most notable when she used her position at the Susan G. Komen Foundation to end the organization’s funding of mammograms at Planned Parenthood healthcare facilities. She later wrote a whole book about it, called “Planned Bullyhood,” after the Komen Foundation

Healthcare

Abortion’s long history and deep roots

Abortion is a modern day issue fueling the “culture war,” and the South, as usual, is “behind” the rest of the country in championing safe, legal access to abortion. At least, that’s one narrative that appears over and over again. But this narrative isn’t true. Both the history of abortion itself throughout human existence, and the modern history of abortion in the Southeast United States reveal a much richer reality than many give it credit

Healthcare

Why do you want to be an abortion provider?

Kayley Scruggs grew up in Mississippi, witnessing the regular protests outside of the state’s one abortion clinic, called “The Pink House,” by opponents and supporters alike. She’s now attending school in Georgia, working on getting her Bachelor of Science in nursing, before ultimately becoming a midwife. But those experiences never left her, and she is now working to become an abortion provider. “I eventually want to be a midwife and my goal is, I think

Healthcare

Abortion “reversal” bill would mandate lying to women

A bill in Georgia’s Senate (SB 239) — sponsored by six Republican men — would require abortion providers to lie to women. Women who have decided to have a medication abortion are prescribed two doses of medicine to induce the abortion. If this bill passes, women seeking these kinds of procedures would be forced to learn about the scientifically unsupported option of “reversing” the abortion by taking a different medicine for their second dose. There

Healthcare

Abortion clinic realities: Caring for patients, keeping them safe

Dr. Kim M.*, the clinic administrator for Feminist Women’s Health Center, spoke with Better Georgia about what it’s really like inside a clinic that provides healthcare to women, including providing abortions. Dr. Kim was a gynecologist with her own practice, when she realized she had a passion (and a knack) for keeping medical practices running smoothly. When she and her family moved back to Georgia, she decided to go full time into that work, hoping, too,