georgia supreme court. briefing will be done in the next couple of months and there will be an oral argument and ultimately a ruling by the court, probably in january, february, march of this year. so i m hoping sooner rather than later because, obviously, people order their lives around these kinds of decisions. they make medical decisions, health decisions, you know, whether they want to get pregnant or try to get pregnant. physicians are making those decisions in terms of their patients. so the sooner that we get a ruling, obviously, the better for all involved. you say that women are being left out of this conversation. what do women in georgia who are facing the need for an abortion need to know right now? it s one of those things where i don t think you know you are going to need an abortion until you do. this is a very complicated health issue and decisions are made between the health care provider and a woman. what i can say is that if you
people have forgotten. it was the alabama special election in 17. i was told there s no way a democrat is going to win in alabama. then as the votes came in suddenly they started talking about the black belt in alabama across the center of the state. suddenly we hear the turnout in the black belt in an off year special election, which we all know. nobody comes out for those. actually, black voters came out at a higher rate than they did in the second obama election. they elected doug jones in that election. they elected doug jones. you look what happened in 2020 when we were sitting there looking. it was black women in milwaukee. it was black women in elaine county. it was black women in georgia.
four years ago we were speculating about how terrible it would all be. because he was inside say hurry to be first, georgians died. he prematurely opened the state without precautions. . he was the governor when six hospitals shut down. he refused to expand medicaid. he was the architect of weakening gun laws. other states have been trying to strengthen gun laws. georgia saw gun violence skyrocket. he has weakened gun laws and banned background checks. he has banned books. he has banned telling children through that school. he has banned abortion. we know from women in georgia that this is a lethal decision. we have some women who don t have health insurance. we have 82 counties that don t have it ob/gyn. and they have to know they re pregnant before they know they are pregnant to get access to reproductive care. this is just not don. if somebody puts a bill on his dad ask it, further restrict
walker, saying that he didn t want to be involved in the personal life of his running mate but doesn t mind being involved in the personal lives and personal medical choices of women in georgia. we are a state that values life. i understand people disagree on when that issue may be comfortable for them or not. it s not my desire to go move the needle any further on this issue. reporter: another notable moment came when abrams raised concerns about women, potentially being investigated after suffering a miscarriage due to georgia s abortion law. it was at that moment that governor kemp raised that years ago his own wife had a miscarriage. it is unclear how much this moves the needle. this was a substantive policy debate where you really saw these dramatic differences at play, but so many people have already voted in this state, victor. over a million have voted
herschel walker saying that if he didn t want to be involved in the personal life of his running mate, but you doesn t mind being involved in the personal lives and personal medical choices of women in georgia. what is the difference? well, i would say it s the equipment. georgia s heartbeat law was signed by governor kemp in 2019. it bans abortions when there is cardiac activity in an embryo which can happen at six weeks which is earlier than some women even know that they re pregnant. there are exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother. turning now to the war in ukraine. a new series of explosions rocked kyiv early this morning as russia launched a new round of missile strikes targeting critical infrastructure. the mayor of kyiv says part of the ukrainian capital has been cut off from power and water supplies. the scale of the attack wasn t immediately clear but an adviser to ukraine s interior ministry said that russia launched 40