Carr’s office claims Georgia women have “no constitutional right to an elective abortion”

After a Fulton County judge this week struck down Gov. Brian Kemp’s extreme abortion ban – which went into effect after Donald Trump’s Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 – Attorney General Chris Carr immediately asked the Georgia Supreme Court to reinstate the ban, claiming Georgia women have “no constitutional right to an elective abortion.”

“The heartbreaking, preventable deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller due to our state’s Trump-Kemp abortion ban should have prompted Governor Kemp, AG Carr, and their allies to finally reverse course on their dangerous policies,” said DPG spokesperson Ellie Schwartz. “Instead, Kemp and Carr are doubling down on the same ban that cost these two women their lives and threatens the health and wellbeing of many more, puts doctors at risk of criminal prosecution, and continues to worsen our state’s shortage of OBGYNs.”

ProPublica recently launched an investigative series on the deaths of two Georgia women, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, who were unable to access lifesaving care because of Georgia’s abortion ban. A committee of experts ruled their deaths preventable, and the report notes that “there are almost certainly others.”