{"id":26882,"date":"2025-03-24T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T19:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=26882"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T19:44:26","slug":"watch-georgias-abortion-ban-limiting-doctors-abilities-to-care-for-patients","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/watch-georgias-abortion-ban-limiting-doctors-abilities-to-care-for-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Georgia\u2019s Abortion Ban Limiting Doctor\u2019s Abilities to Care for Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

WATCH: <\/em><\/strong>FULL OVERSIGHT EVENT VIDEO HERE<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atlanta, Ga. \u2014<\/strong> Georgia\u2019s abortion ban is limiting doctor\u2019s abilities to care for their patients, two Georgia women told reporters today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, during an oversight session with U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff, two Georgia women described how Georgia\u2019s abortion ban impeded their doctor\u2019s abilities to provide medical care, leading to life-threatening infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy doctors warned me that I was now at high risk of developing a life-threatening infection called sepsis, on top of my continued risks from blood loss, and that my situation would become life threatening. They also told me that miscarriage was inevitable. At 18 weeks, my baby would not be able to survive outside the womb\u2014and since my water had broken, he could no longer grow inside me, either,\u201d Avery Davis Bell said.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis Bell, a research scientist in genetics, said she had to wait hours, while passing blood clots and becoming septic, before being able to receive life-saving treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy doctors assured me they were going to save my life but, because of Georgia\u2019s abortion laws, my doctors had to balance what was best for me in the moment with navigating legal red tape,\u201d Davis Bell continued.<\/strong><\/a> \u201cEven with a doomed, non-viable pregnancy and at risk of death, I needed to be actively dying to receive a life-saving abortion. But determining when exactly I was dying, that\u2019s not black and white and my doctors should not have had to wait to make that call because they knew I would get there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pregnant with twins, Callie Beale Harper said she was denied urgently needed medical care after being told that carrying both twins to term would put her own life and the healthy twin\u2019s life at risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy doctor told me that I needed a selective reduction, a procedure to reduce the number of fetuses in my twin pregnancy, as soon as possible, to protect the other twin and myself. He advised me to seek care outside of Georgia, because Georgia\u2019s restrictive law tied his hands,\u201d Callie Beale Harper said.<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>\u201cMy doctor further urged me to quickly secure multiple appointments in different states, only canceling once I had successfully received treatment, because constantly changing abortion laws in other states could further delay my care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, as Chair of the Senate Human Rights Subcommittee, Sen. Ossoff convened two public hearings at which Georgia women and Georgia OBGYNs testified to the harmful impacts of Georgia\u2019s abortion ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July, OB-GYN doctors testified<\/a> that women in Georgia are being denied care during miscarriages and gone into sepsis because of Georgian\u2019s abortion ban, which they testified has hindered OGBYNs\u2019 ability to do their jobs and could put them at risk of prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September, two patients and an OBGYN testified<\/a> in Atlanta that the State\u2019s abortion ban is forcing Georgia women to continue high-risk and nonviable pregnancies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WATCH: FULL OVERSIGHT EVENT VIDEO HERE Atlanta, Ga. \u2014 Georgia\u2019s abortion ban is limiting doctor\u2019s abilities to care for their patients, two Georgia women told reporters today. Today, during an oversight session with U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff, two Georgia women described how Georgia\u2019s abortion ban impeded their doctor\u2019s abilities to provide medical care, leading to life-threatening infections. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26882","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26882","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\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26884,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26882\/revisions\/26884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}