What Our Candidates Are Saying - State Legislature

Top Row: Ashwin Ramaswami (SD 48), Hamza Nazir (SD 27), Elaine Padgett (HD 25), Jennifer Ambler (HD 100)
Bottom Row: Randye Dugan (HD 24), Kayla Hollifield (HD 11), Lakiea Bailey (HD 26), Michael Henson (HD 28)
In the aftermath of the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, Georgians have been left with a patchwork of confusing and contradictory laws and bills that leave even basic reproductive healthcare in chaos. 
For Republicans not quite satisfied with overturning Roe v Wade, there is now Project 2025–which would go even further to police and criminalize all aspects of women’s  reproductive care–from conception, to abortion care and pregnancy loss. We are faced with a dystopia that not even Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale depicts.
First, we must educate voters on the fact that “abortion” is an umbrella term and includes procedures that are used to save a woman's life and maintain her future ability to have children. Since most women do not know they are even pregnant at six weeks, Gov Kemp’s six-week abortion ban has made all women's lives unsafe. We need to trust women to know what is right for themselves in all aspects of their healthcare. These decisions are medical and personal between a woman, her loved ones, and her doctor.

Second, we must know the dangers of Republicans’ Project 2025. Women will lose access to birth control, IVF, and basic bodily autonomy. 

Finally, we must elect more women and men who support and trust women with their own bodies. We need healthcare workers in the legislature. Many legislators--mostly men–do not understand the most basic aspects of human anatomy, and thus electing more women to the legislature will help remedy this knowledge gap. 

In summary, educate yourself on what have been taboo topics for too long. Spread the word on what reproductive healthcare truly comprises, and how Trump, the GOP, and Project 2025 threaten us all. Vote Democrat all the way up and down the ballot, and let's elect women who have first hand knowledge of their bodies, and men who understand the facts.