Veto Letter to GA Governor Nathan Deal: House Bill 954

Read the Center for Reproductive Rights’ letter to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal urging him to veto House Bill 954 which will endanger the health of pregnant women in Georgia who have a constitutional right to access the essential reproductive health care banned by this bill, and will prevent physicians from exercising their best medical judgment in caring for their patients. The bill bans abortions at 20 weeks post-fertilization, with exceptions only to prevent a woman’s death, to “avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function,” not including psychological or emotional conditions, or in cases of a “medically futile pregnancy.”