ICYMI: Georgians Slam GOP U.S. Senate Candidates for Their Extreme Anti-Abortion Agendas in Atlanta

New reporting from 11Alive, FOX5, and Georgia Recorder highlighted the Georgia leaders and reproductive rights advocates who denounced GOP U.S. Senate candidates for their anti-abortion extremism on the eve of the third anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

11Alive:

• Zach Merchant, 11Alive: […] Today, on the eve of the three year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the Chair of the Democratic Party, flanked by local advocates, criticized Republicans, including candidates and potential candidates for Senate, for their stances on reproductive rights.
  
• DPG Chair Charlie Bailey: […] We need these Republicans […] Buddy Carter, Mike Collins, John King, to be told by the state of Georgia, ‘No thank you.’ We don’t need your opinion about what the women of Georgia should be doing with their bodies.
  
• Zach Merchant, 11Alive: State Democrats also released a new ad that labels Georgia’s 2019 anti-abortion law as “dangerous,” signaling this could be a key campaign theme for the party in 2026.

FOX5:

• Courtney Bryant, FOX5: Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the historic Dobbs decision, which overturned a woman’s constitutional right to abortion. Today, Democratic lawmakers and reproductive rights advocates…said the overturning of Roe v. Wade has had a devastating impact on women’s reproductive freedoms here in Georgia and across the country.
  
• Rep. Shea Roberts: We can trust Senator Jon Ossoff. We know that he is on the side of protecting reproductive health care, of standing up for the rights of Georgians, and fighting back against GOP attacks on abortion access.

Georgia Recorder: Three years later, debate over abortion limits in Georgia is far from settled

• The fallout of the Dobbs decision is continuing to cause ripple effects throughout the state, with advocates on both sides gearing up for a fight that will play out — at least in part — at the ballot box in 2026.
  
• For Democrats, who are hoping to see incumbent U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff reelected for another term, access to reproductive health care is a crucial part of the campaign.
  
• High-profile cases of Georgia women whose deaths have been tied to Georgia’s six-week abortion ban have also cast a national spotlight onto the state’s restrictive laws.
  
• At a press conference held in front of a mural depicting [Amber] Thurman and [Candi] Miller, members of the Democratic Party of Georgia criticized the state’s law, citing cases like Thurman, Miller and [Adriana] Smith’s as evidence of the danger Georgia’s ban poses for those seeking reproductive health care.
  
• Republicans running for the U.S. Senate in 2026 include Congressman Buddy Carter, who represents a district in coastal Georgia, and Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John King, who have both praised Georgia’s six-week abortion ban. Congressman Mike Collins, a Jackson Republican, is also seen as a potential contender for the race, though he has not announced his candidacy.
  
• State Rep. Shea Roberts, an Atlanta Democrat, highlighted the turmoil Georgia’s abortion restrictions pose for doctors trying to administer care for pregnant patients, and criticized Republicans’ response to the ban’s repercussions.
  
• “Georgia’s abortion laws are vague, often leaving doctors and hospitals scrambling with their lawyers instead of giving patients the care they need,” Roberts said. “These women should be alive today, and they should still be with their families, yet Carter, King and Collins have stood by the very ban that led to these deaths.”