Thursday, July 20, marks one year since Georgia’s law banning abortion at roughly six weeks of pregnancy took effect.
Six weeks is before many people realize they’re pregnant, and the law has meant navigating a host of changes for patients and clinics across the state.
The biggest change is having to turn away so many patients when their ultrasounds show their pregnancies are beyond six weeks, said Aneisha Jacobs, a nurse practitioner and nursing supervisor at Feminist Women’s Health Center.
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