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The Georgia House Bill 481, formally named the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, is an American anti-abortion law passed in 2019 that sought to prevent physicians in the U.S. state of Georgia from performing abortions beyond six weeks, except in special situations.
In 1909, women of Atlanta lobbied the city government for the municipal vote for women. [28] Women in Atlanta were paying taxes on more than $13,000,000 worth of real estate and personal property. [28] Despite the efforts of women to show that they were being taxed without being represented, the City of Atlanta rejected municipal women's ...
Due to tight restrictions in neighboring states, as well as cost issues, thousands of women come from out of state to have abortions in Georgia. There were 30,013 legal abortions in 2014, and 31,009 in 2015. 14.5% of all abortions carried out in 2015 were for out of state residents. [11] There is an active abortion rights movement in the state.
Rep. Jim Clyburn and other Democrats reintroduced legislation to make it easier to cast ballots in the wake of states adopting restrictive laws
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“Now, we were a unique city, because in the '40s and '50s, when all of this was going on, we probably had more Black PhDs in Atlanta than anywhere else in the world,” Young said.
This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Georgia. Women's suffrage in Georgia started in earnest with the formation of the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA) in 1892. GWSA helped bring the first large women's rights convention to the South in 1895 when the National American Woman's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) held their convention in ...
The Atlanta tragedy killed eight people, most of whom were Asian women. The White shooter says it's not racial but sexually motivated -- but some Asian American history experts say the ...