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.

What the Supreme Court did, and what the 11th circuit suborned today was essentially saying that women in Georgia are now second-class citizens.

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

What has been done with abortion rights is an assault on our liberties. But we can and will fight back. We can organize. We can vote.

Georgia is the tip of the spear. And if we can stop these laws here in Georgia, if we can reverse this trend, we can do so much not only to protect the women of Georgia, but to protect women in the south.

And if you`re a Black woman, then your likelihood of dying is three times higher.

Right now, women are in extreme danger. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp passed a law in 2019 that he gleefully signed that eliminates access to the right to an abortion after six weeks.

Brian Kemp both refuses to expand Medicaid in an act of cruelty that defies understanding.

Brian Kemp is so dangerous to Georgia. He`s dangerous to the women of Georgia. He`s dangerous to the families of Georgia. He`s dangerous to the economy of Georgia.

We know that the right to choose should not be divvied up among states. And that the sinister practice of taking constitutional rights and allowing each state to decide the quality of your citizenship is wrong. Women deserve bodily autonomy. They deserve the right to make these choices. And in Georgia in particular in a matter of days this six-week ban will be the law of the land. That is horrendous. That is appalling. And it is wrong, and as the next governor I`m going to do everything in my power to reverse it.

Women today lost the right to make our own health care decisions, and the right to shape our own futures. As a woman, I am appalled. As a Georgian, I am enraged. As an American, I am disgusted by this abdication of all we hold dear.