{"id":14254,"date":"2022-06-24T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=14254"},"modified":"2022-06-27T07:56:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:56:24","slug":"sen-ossoff-statement-on-dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-organization","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-statement-on-dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong> \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith its decision in&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>, the Court has stripped American women of autonomy over their most personal health care decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Court has given license to prosecute and imprison women for making the intensely personal decision to end a pregnancy \u2014 even when their health is at risk, even in the first hours or weeks after conception, and even when pregnancy results from rape \u2014 and to prosecute doctors and nurses whose private relationships with their patients have been protected by&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>&nbsp;for half a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnder Georgia\u2019s HB481, the Court\u2019s decision means Georgia women and medical providers could face prosecution for ending a pregnancy as early as six weeks after conception \u2013 before many women even know they are pregnant. This decision also creates risk of investigation and prosecution for women who miscarry and will force some women seeking access to abortion toward unsafe, unqualified alternatives that put their lives at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Court\u2019s reasoning imperils other longstanding precedents upon which Americans rely for privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties \u2014 including precedents that establish rights to contraception and to interracial and same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere is the inescapable fact: the Justices\u2019 determination to demolish these long-established protections means our only defenses are at the ballot box, in our state legislatures, and in the Congress \u2014 where I will continue to fight for the principles of&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>&nbsp;and the privacy of women\u2019s health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement: \u201cWith its decision in&nbsp;Dobbs, the Court has stripped American women of autonomy over their most personal health care decisions. \u201cThe Court has given license to prosecute and imprison women for making the intensely personal decision to end a pregnancy \u2014 even when their [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14254","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14258,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14254\/revisions\/14258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}