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A crowd of people holding signs in protest of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

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  • Health Care

Blue state businesses offer travel money for employees in need of abortion care

Companies are increasingly asked to weigh in on social and political issues. Many are now putting benefits packages where their mouths are.

June 28, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Protestors Hold A Demonstration Against Georgia's Heart Bill, HB 481

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  • Politics

State lawmakers: Georgia's abortion law's journey filled with tension and 'political theater'

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that guaranteed a women's right to obtain an abortion. Georgia lawmakers' responses to the ruling remained tied to how they voted for the state's "heartbeat" bill in 2019.

June 28, 2022
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By:
  • Donna Lowry
 Georgia NAACP President James Woodall spoke outside the Richard B. Russell federal courthouse at a July 2020 press conference detailing a lawsuit asking a judge to change the election process used to select Georgia PSC commissioners. The suit alleges the process delivers white candidates who fail to adequately represent Black Georgians.

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  • Elections

Federal trial starts claiming Black voters disenfranchised by Georgia PSC elections

On Monday, lawyers delivered opening statements and the first witnesses took the stand in an Atlanta U.S. District courtroom as the Rose vs. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger lawsuit got its first hearing. Four Black Fulton and DeKalb county residents allege that the voting strength of Black people is eroded by a statewide election process used to elect the Public Service Commission.

June 28, 2022
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Diane Derzis, owner of the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., pauses as she gathers her thoughts at a news conference on her reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Friday, June 24, 2022. Derzis also owns a clinic in Columbus, Ga.

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  • Health

In Columbus, an abortion clinic is in high demand from other states with no access

Diane Derzis thought she was prepared for Roe v. Wade, and the constitutional right to an abortion, to be overturned. At clinics she owns across the South, she had, in fact, been preparing for months. 

“Then you get there and it’s like ‘Oh my God,’” Derzis said. 

June 28, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
School traffic cameras

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  • Law

New automated traffic cameras catch thousands speeding in Bibb County school zones

Bibb County installed three automated school zone speed cameras in the late spring with plans to install more in the coming months. In the final two weeks of school, more than 2,000 citations were issued and more than 5,000 received warning letters in the mail.

June 28, 2022
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By:
  • Laura Corley
Hundreds attended a rally Sunday in Macon in protest of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. After a brief march, attendees, one after the other, shared their stories of abortion, access and choice.

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  • Health

PHOTOS: Georgians react to the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade

Protestors took to the streets across Georgia over the last several days to voice their opinion of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday. Here are scenes from some of those demonstrations in Atlanta and Macon.

June 27, 2022
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By:
  • GPB News Staff
The Supreme Court

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Georgia's six-week ban on abortions pending in courts, candidates respond

Monday on Political Rewind: The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade led to a weekend full of uncertainty. Will abortion rights motivate voters to turn out in November?

June 27, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
A closeup of a person's nose, mouth and hand while smoking a cigarette

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  • Health

Menthol cigarettes next up for FDA ban list after Juul vaping products

A public comment period has been extended until Aug. 2 for anyone including public health experts, parents, smokers, and former smokers to tell the U.S. Food and Drug Administration what they think about a proposed rule to prohibit menthol cigarettes.

June 26, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Women protest outside the State Capitol in Atlanta on Friday, June 25, 2022 the day of the Roe v. Wade decision.

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  • Health

Post-Roe: What lies ahead for Georgia’s women

Women share abortion experiences, worry about reproductive care in a state with high maternal mortality rates.

June 24, 2022
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By:
  • Sonia Chajet Wides and
  • Kate Griem
U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Politics

Georgia Democrats outraged, Republicans cheer as Supreme Court guts abortion rights

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has asked the district court holding up Georgia's six-week abortion ban to move to allow the law to immediately take effect.

June 24, 2022
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By:
  • Riley Bunch
Anti-choice protesters outside a Macon clinic then slated to become an abortion provider in 2018. The protesters won, leaving the closest abortion provider two hours away in Columbus.

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  • Health

In Macon, maternal health experts see differing implications post Roe

The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade came during a symposium of maternal health experts on Mercer’s Macon Campus. Reactions by attendees were mixed. 

June 24, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Grant Blankenship

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  • News

GPB evening headlines for June 24, 2022

Georgia Power wants to raise customer bills 12 percent over the next three years.

Savannah will hold an event next month to support local Black business owners and aspiring Black entrepreneurs. 

A North Carolina global logistics provider is moving its home base to Metro Atlanta, after several years of rapid growth in the area.

June 24, 2022
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By:
  • GPB News Radio
Front end loaders are dwarfed by the coal field at Georgia Power's Plant Scherer.

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  • News

Georgia Power proposes 12% increase in bills, with 2023 leap

Georgia Power Co. wants to raise customer bills 12% over the next three years. The company says in a rate filing with state regulators Friday that the extra $2.8 billion it wants to collect would pay for system improvements, higher costs and higher profits.

June 24, 2022
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  • Associated Press
anti-abortion protestors

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  • News

WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks after Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

President Joe Biden will deliver remarks Friday on the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion.

June 24, 2022
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  • PBS Newshour
Anti-abortion activists demonstrate outside the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, U.S., June 13, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

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  • News

Live Updates: Supreme Court Roe v. Wade Decision reaction in Georgia

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, reversing Roe v. Wade. We have reaction from officials, organizations and citizens from across Georgia 

June 24, 2022
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