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Karen Handel and Renee Unterman’s Anti-Choice Records in the Spotlight as 2020 Candidates Convene in Ga.

AJC: “Georgia anti-abortion law could drive discussion at Democratic debate” … and the leading Republican in GA-07 wrote the bill!

Every Democratic presidential candidate and national reporter who lands at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport today and tomorrow will be setting foot into the state that passed one of the nation’s most extreme abortion bans earlier this year.

Georgia’s law passed with the support of career politicians like State Senator Renee Unterman and former Congresswoman Karen Handel, the respective front-runners for the Republican nomination in GA-07 and GA-06. Unterman herself wrote the bill.

Meanwhile, Handel voted to jail doctors who perform abortions during her brief time in Congress and resigned in disgrace from the Komen foundation after attempting to strip funding away from Planned Parenthood.

The issue is already in the spotlight as speculation rises ahead of tomorrow night’s Democratic debate, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

“The law Georgia’s General Assembly passed earlier this year, House Bill 481, would have banned most abortions once cardiac activity could be detected in the womb, which can occur about six weeks into a pregnancy and before many women even know they are pregnant.”

For Unterman and Handel, their shared support for Georgia’s abortion ban and their long records of supporting extreme anti-choice legislation is a great way to claw their way out of a crowded GOP primary.

But it’s primed to backfire in a general election, as voters in the Atlanta suburbs are set to reject these types of radical and rigid legislation and the extreme politicians who champion it.

“Karen Handel and Renee Unterman unabashedly support extreme and rigid laws that would take away a woman’s right to choose and they’re completely out-of-touch with Georgia voters,” DCCC spokesman Avery Jaffe said. “These two career politicians have spent decades serving the special interests, stripping away health care and putting their extreme partisan agenda first instead of listening to voters in metro Atlanta.”                     

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