Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has not said he wants women investigated or punished for pregnancies that end in miscarriage. A six-week abortion law he signed said miscarriages are legal.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was “faking being arrested” during an abortion-rights protest outside the Supreme Court.The Abrams campaign did not cite any instances of Kemp saying he wanted women to be investigated for miscarriages.
However, spokespersons for Kemp’s campaign and the governor’s office maintained that under Georgia’s law, a woman cannot be prosecuted for getting an abortion or for having a miscarriage. In a search of the Nexis news database, we did not find that Kemp made any statements regarding the law, miscarriages and investigations or punishment of women.
But Kreis said the law’s"heartbeat" provision could expose a woman to a police investigation. He said someone in a dispute with a woman could report her ended pregnancy as an illegal abortion to police, who might feel compelled to investigate. Such a case theoretically could result in a district attorney charging that woman with murder, given that the law essentially defines life as beginning when a heartbeat is detected, he said.
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