Dangerous state advisory for women and girls - Georgia
29 March 2025
This series of essays discusses states with policies that make it dangerous for women and girls to live there or even visit. I add new states and update from time to time. The complete list is here.
I suggest avoiding visiting, moving to or living in these states. These states are dangerous for all females 9 to 59 even to visit. If you are pregnant or health care providers think you may become pregnant, you may get inferior care because state policies may value a potential unborn life more than your own. If you decide to live in these states, I suggest you work hard to change your government’s policies, which today means working for Democratic Party candidates.
In addition to the danger to women and girls, states that ban abortion are losing population in general and losing OBGYNs. In addition, college students and medical students applying for residencies are avoiding anti-abortion states.
These states have many fine institutions. But how can you live where governmental policies threaten the health of women and girls?
Georgia policies
Updated 29 March 2025
In Georgia, women and girls may be charged with a crime for having a miscarriage. Georgia police arrested a woman for having a miscarriage and disposing of the remains in a dumpster. There is no known law dictating how to dispose of miscarriage remains in Georgia, but police arrested her anyway. Her mugshot was splashed across local crime pages. Miscarriage is the most common complication of U.S. pregnancies, occurring in 15–20% of clinically recognized pregnancies or 750,000–1,000,000 cases annually.
Georgia bans abortions after finding a “detectable human heartbeat,” which can happen as early as six weeks into pregnancy when many women still don’t know they are pregnant. Note - this “fetal heartbeat” concept is a lie - it is not comparable to an adult heartbeat because there are no heart values at 6 weeks, only electrical signals that the ultrasound turns into a sound.
In Georgia, two women died from delayed care due to Georgia’s abortion law, apparently because doctors were afraid that acting too soon would violate the law.
In 2021, Georgia had the second highest U.S. maternal mortality rate (after Louisiana) with 66.3 deaths per 100,000 live births compared to the national average of 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births. For 2018-2022, Georgia was tied for the eighth highest (see above table).
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