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Stacey Abrams

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Stacey Abrams is a prominent Democratic politician and activist from Georgia, known for her work in voting rights and social justice. She gained national recognition as the Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017, where she focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and economic development. Abrams is also the founder of Fair Fight Action, an organization aimed at combating voter suppression and advocating for fair elections. Her efforts in mobilizing voters in Georgia played a significant role in the 2020 presidential election and the subsequent Senate runoff elections in 2021.

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Sep 28, 2022

There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. It is a manufactured sound.

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Sep 28, 2022

There's no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman's body away from her.

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Sep 18, 2022

Women deserve full citizenship, in the United States and, certainly, in the State of Georgia. And they are being denied that because of Brian Kemp's draconian six-week ban.

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Sep 14, 2022

My plan is a five billion dollar -- to use our five billion dollar surplus, and I’m not saying use it only for this community or only to satisfy this political end.

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Sep 14, 2022

People are anxious but they`re also -- they have a sense of urgency that things have to change. They survived COVID. They survived racial violence. They have survived an economic downturn that they weren`t expecting, but they`ve also had…

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Sep 14, 2022

One of the pieces of my approach to politics that is that seems to confound people is that I treat all voters as persuasion voters.

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Sep 14, 2022

It is wrong for the state to impose its political values on a woman`s reproductive choice.

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Sep 14, 2022

How do you get us back to safety? How do you ensure justice? How do we have economic opportunity that is real?

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Sep 14, 2022

I’m worried about access to the right to vote in Georgia because we know that there are roadblocks that were put in place intentionally designed to block access.

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Sep 14, 2022

Georgia, unfortunately, remains ground zero for voter suppression and despite the misinformation and I would say outright disinformation delivered often by our top two leaders by the governor and by the secretary of state, the law that…

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Sep 14, 2022

We demonstrated that there are voices that have long been ignored that can have volume and have effect.

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Sep 1, 2022

Yes. Brian Kemp`s running mate, Burt Jones, was a fake elector. He signed a fake electorate slip. We know that Brian Kemp has also reappointed yet another fake elector and he`s accepted more than $250,000 from fake electors.

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Sep 1, 2022

We know that right now, thousands of Georgia voters have been challenged because of an unlimited elector challenge process that was put in place by Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger.

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Sep 1, 2022

I think that President Biden clearly articulated what is at stake, but I want to urge caution that we not be distracted by the carnival barkers that we see in a Donald Trump or Lindsey Graham and we ignore those who are just as dangerous…

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Aug 6, 2022

Where we stood in Georgia prior to Brian Kemp was a 20-week ban, that I also found deeply objectionable. But what Brian Kemp has done is go so far afield that 72% of women — 72% of Georgians disagree with what we have right now, which is…

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Aug 6, 2022

It is an essential conversation. It is about the freedom of women to direct their lives. It is about health care freedom.

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Aug 6, 2022

Brian Kemp is doing an excellent job of showing that he is an extremist who has a hard right agenda that is not in the best interest of Georgia.

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Aug 6, 2022

My intention is going to be to pass legislation that says a woman has the right to an abortion, and that right continues until a physician determines the fetus is viable outside of the body, except in the case of protecting the woman's…

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Aug 3, 2022

Kansas has made a habit in recent years of doing the right thing, the election of Laura Kelly in the face of the extremist Kris Kobach signal that Kansas wanted good leadership. And in this case, they wanted the right to freedom for women…

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Aug 3, 2022

If women want the ability to determine what their lives look like economically and socially, then we have to elect a governor who believes in the woman`s right.

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Aug 3, 2022

We know that Brian Kemp is a hard-right extremist who does not deserve to hold this job.

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Aug 3, 2022

Brian Kemp has said that he intends to expand this abortion law, this abortion ban to deny women the right to choose even in cases of rape and incest.

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Aug 3, 2022

I am strongly pro-choice because I understand that this is about freedom. This is about access. And this is about a right for women to choose her future.

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Jul 20, 2022

Today, women in Georgia lost the right to choose their futures. We are now being governed by one of the most extreme abortion bans in the nation.

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Jul 20, 2022

This is a hard right, he is a hard right, religious extremist who has decided to force women either into pregnancy or into jail.

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