Dear Editor,
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision two years ago has changed the landscape of healthcare for women of childbearing age. In many states like Georgia, new restrictions took effect immediately, and more states have banned or restricted abortion in the time since.
In Georgia, laws considering a fetus a person hinge on the belief that personhood begins at conception. Others believe that a fetus is a person once it can survive outside the womb. This topic has been hotly debated, and various religious groups disagree.
What is clear is that pregnant women and girls are not receiving medical care because doctors and hospitals are afraid of breaking new laws that are unclear and ignore all of the grey areas.
Women with ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, genetic abnormalities, and other complications are being told to wait until their conditions become life-threatening. Not only can this endanger their lives, but it can also affect a woman’s future fertility. IVF is also threatened under these laws.
More recently, even access to contraception is in jeopardy. All Republican Senators, (except for two women) just recently voted against the Right to Contraception Act. Seriously?
In our opinion, the right thing to do, in our opinion, is to trust doctors, women, and their families to make the right decisions for themselves. We intend to vote for candidates who will promise to keep the government out of it and return this right to the people involved.
We call upon like-minded women (and men) to use their vote in November and focus on this critical issue to make your voice heard. Our daughters and grand-daughters deserve nothing less.
V. Johnson, A. Koppelmann, B. Gilkison Greensboro