Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams claimed her stance on abortion comes from her “faith tradition.”
“While your faith tradition may tell you that you personally do not want to make that choice, it is not my right as a Christian to impose that value system on someone else,” Abrams said in a Sunday interview, “because the value that should overhang everything is the right to make our own decisions, the free will that the God I believe in gave us.”
Both of Abrams’s parents are retired United Methodist pastors, and, according to its website, United Methodist “belief in the sanctity of unborn human life makes us reluctant to approve abortion. But we are equally bound to respect the sacredness of the life and well-being of the mother and the unborn child.”
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Georgia enacted a six-week abortion ban following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which includes exceptions in cases of rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is at risk. Subsequently, Georgians can also now claim embryos on their state taxes.
Still, 42% of voters in the state claimed to be more likely to vote for a candidate who favored protecting abortion rights, according to last week’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll. About 25% said the issue made no difference, leaving the remaining 26% more willing to vote for candidates against abortion.
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Georgia reached 68.9 pregnancy-associated deaths per 100,000 live births from 2015 to 2017, which was the last year the data were recorded, as opposed to the national maternal death rate of 23.8 per 100,000, recorded in 2020.
