"I think a lot of people are not making the connection that abortion care is health care," she said. "Abortion quite literally saves lives. All pregnancies are not safe, and all pregnancies should not be carried all the way to term."
Planned Parenthood's four clinics in Georgia are fielding an influx of calls from within the state and those around it where most abortions remain banned, said Jaylen Black, vice president of marketing and communications. Workers are also calling patients they have previously had to turn away. "We've been able to get them rescheduled," Black said.
This new access is the latest in a wave of developments in the two weeks since ProPublica told the stories of Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, Georgia women who died after they couldn't access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state.
A committee of maternal health experts, including 10 doctors, deemed their deaths 'preventable,' shifting the discussion about such outcomes from hypothetical to a new American reality.
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