Must See: What Does Georgia Candidate Stacy Abrams Think About Abortion? You Tell Us

By Roberta Elliot | Monday, 27 June 2022 12:00 PM
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Must See: What Does Georgia Candidate Stacy Abrams Think About Abortion? You Tell Us

IN conservative and religious Georgia, Abortion is a hot topic - and Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia - showed that by refusing to give a plain, clear answer when asked if she would back any limitations on abortion as the top executive of the state.

CNN's Jake Tapper interviewed Abrams days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the nearly 50-year nationwide right to an abortion. After stressing that about 2 in 3 people in the United States reinforce Roe, though "more nuanced questions" show most people support some restrictions on abortion, Tapper asked, "Do you think the government should play any role in restricting abortion? As governor, what restrictions would you be willing to support in Georgia, if any?" Abrams said her "first responsibility is to protect the life and the welfare of the women in the state and to make it safe for them to make medical choices."

These medical choices, Abrams added, "should not be governed by someone's religious or ideological convictions. And if we're going to make medical decisions, they should be made with medical input, not at the whim of politicians."

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed a "heartbeat" bill in 2019 that restricts abortion in the state after a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks of gestation, that is likely to take effect now that Roe has been overturned. Exceptions include a threat to the life of the mother, the threat of "irreversible physical impairment," rape, and incest.

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Abrams said Georgia should "do what is right" for women in the state and stated her belief that there "should be federal law that allows women to have these choices, to have reproductive choice and reproductive justice." She added, "And I think that it has to stop being a political football, where the ideology of the leader of a state can determine the quality of life for a woman and her ability to make the choices she needs."

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In another interview on Fox News Sunday, anchor Martha MacCallum asked Abrams if she supports "any limitation" on abortion or whether she thinks women should be able to have an abortion "all the way up to nine months."

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Abrams replied by saying, again, she believes abortion is a "medical decision" and should be a choice made between a woman and a doctor in consultation with the woman's family.

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Kemp applauded the Supreme Court's "landmark" ruling on abortion as a "historic victory for life" and said, "I look forward to its impact on the legal proceeding surrounding Georgia's LIFE Act, and hope our law will be fully implemented."

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