Atlanta women’s health providers and abortion-rights advocates are speaking out against Georgia’s six-week abortion law as an Emory University Hospital patient recently declared “brain dead” remains on life support to sustain her pregnancy.
State law bans abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy, when an ultrasound detects cardiac activity in an embryo. There are medical exceptions allowed under the ban, including for miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy.
But OB-GYN Dr. Zoe Lucier-Julian, director of clinical innovation and liberatory research at the Feminist Center for Reproductive Liberation, said at a press briefing Wednesday that the law’s language leaves a gray area that can lead to delayed treatment, especially for patients experiencing emergency complications.
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