FULLY JABBED. A Baguio City resident avails of the drive-thru vaccination against the coronavirus disease 2019 in this undated photo. The Department of Health in the Cordillera Administrative Region said that as of July 4, 2022, a total of 1,210,617 residents in the region's six provinces and Baguio City have received a full dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. (PNA file photo) BAGUIO CITY - A total of 1,210,617 residents here and in the six provinces of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Based on the July 4 data from the regional Covid-19 vaccination operations cluster of the Department of Health (DOH)-CAR, the figure represents 81.70 percent of the 1,481,793 eligible population in the region. Baguio City remains a top-notch performer with a 109.70 percent vaccination rate, exceeding the 305,448 target eligible population with 335,067 already fully vaccinated. Abra is second highest with a 102.21 percent
Abortion ban in court that could potentially come up in georgia. what do you make of the argument you re neglecting your job if you don t follow the letter of the law? well, good morning, thank you for having me. i think we need to look at it this way, the way i look at my job is to actually protect the constitutional rights of the citizens of this state, and we re not just talking about the u.s. constitution, i think more specifically and specifically for me this really is about the rights of all georgians of the georgia constitution. so while i would not defend hb 481, the abortion ban here, i absolutely would challenge it because i think if you look at our constitution, the language, the history, and the right to privacy that has been upheld over and over and over at the state level, that hb 481 is not going to be able to make it over the line when it comes just to a basic georgia constitutional analysis.
And what s the fight going to look like? look, i think i started to run in large part because of the fight we had in 2019. i mean, the policies that have been time and time adopted by the leadership in this state in particular, you know, they re not policies that protect women. they re not policies that protect families or children who are really being left behind. and in hb-481, georgia s six-week abortion ban, kind of personifies that. listening to the speech now, it s almost chilling because everything i laid out there, they re going to be the real legal consequences that women are going to face here in georgia. and i think a lot of people are stunned by it right now. what are you hearing from women as you re campaigning, and is part of your strategy to try to talk as well to republican women? i think it s about talking to women, right? i thing this isn t or it
there are going to be a few key races in the country and an awful lot of focus on those races in the midterm elections. there is a lot of anger around this supreme court decision now, and people seem very motivated. do you thing they still will be in november to turn out, to try and protect those rights? yeah y thing specifically, and i can speak to georgia, hb-481, which is the law that we passed in 2019, i mean, it s likely to go into effect in august or right before september. it s at that point in time that i think the consequences are going to become very clear to women here. i mean, part of what 481 includes is personhood, which basically recognizes that a fertilized egg is a citizen of the state of georgia and has all the rights attendant to any other person here. if you can think about the pandora s box that is going to be opened with respect to that
Out of office who kind of brought us here in the first place. you mentioned 2019. this is a deeply personal issue for you. talk about that if you don t mind and how this has shaped your views and shaped frankly, your candidacy. yeah, i think in 2019 when we were considering hb 481, the abortion ban in georgia, i really wanted to talk about things in a way that wasn t just in the normal, you know, political way folks talk about abortion. kind of an all or nothing thing. because really what we talk about when we talk about right of privacy or women and their ability to make these decisions, it affects every part of their life. for me, i ve never had an abortion. never sought to have an abortion. but look, i ve had multiple miscarriages. i know what it means to be pregnant. i know what it means to lose a pregnancy. and look, those are some of the most trying and difficult times