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Funding anti-abortion centers in Ga. Where does your legislator stand?

*Correction: an earlier version of this article linked to the Georgia NAACP’s opposition to Amendment 2, the Safe Harbor Amendment. The Georgia NAACP has since reversed their position, and now supports the amendment. The article has been updated to reflect this. In this state, it’s easier to find work-arounds to fund an anti-abortion agenda than to fund programs supporting survivors of child sex trafficking (or to fully fund education, for that matter). What legislators have

Healthcare

New report on Georgia’s poor infant and maternal health ratings

Georgia may tout that highly contentious “number one state for business” rating, but continues to rank at the bottom of the nation on measures of maternal and infant health. Georgia Health News reports that Georgia performs poorly on state rankings of premature births, low-birth weight babies, infant mortality and maternal mortality, much to the concern of the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition. According to a new report the coalition released, there is a lot of inadequate