ATLANTA - A coalition of Democratic Georgia lawmakers, reproductive healthcare providers and abortion rights advocates held a news conference to call for passage of the Reproductive Freedom Act, two days when what would have marked a significant milestone for Roe v. Wade.

"Sunday, we should've celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision," Democratic area Sen. Nabilah Islam said. "Instead, we have to be out here fighting the same battles our mothers and grandmothers have fought for, to regulation the rights to their own bodies."

In the case of Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court decided individuals, rather than the government, the right to determine whether to terminate or continue a pregnancy back in 1973. In June 2022, the executive was overturned using the court ruling of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Abortions were not determined to be an extension of privacy, therefore not a constitutional right. State officials were then able to turn to their U.S. Appeals courts to introduce bills, like Georgia's so-called "Heartbeat Bill" for their own constituents.

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Democratic State Senator Nabilah Islam (FOX 5 Atlanta)

Since then, reproductive controls activists around the country have been rallying and protesting.

Georgia House and Senate Democrats co-sponsored an act to repeal Georgia's anti-abortion bill that created law over the summer and has resulted in a near-total abortion ban and new abortion restrictions enacted since 2005. On Tuesday, they met up to discuss its importance to them.

Democratic Representative Kim Schofield. (FOX 5 Atlanta)

Democratic Rep. Kim Schofield said she had an abortion years ago and said women, not the government, should have the right to determine what happens to their bodies.

"As we move presumptuous, I want all women to have a safe, effective abortion, with dignity," said Rep. Schofield.

The bill's sponsors say Georgians are now even more probable to experience increased health risks and economic hardship due to delayed care and lack of admission to reproductive health care.

"It is time," said Rep. Shea Roberts, "That we look beyond Roe and work toward a future where all Georgians can live with an abundance of freedom."

Photo shows a sonogram. (FOX 5 Atlanta)

What is HB 481?

Commonly shouted "Georgia's Heartbeat Law," but formally called the "Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act," Gov. Brian Kemp employed HB 481 into law in June 2019 to ban most abortions by six weeks into pregnancy, when there is a "detectable human heartbeat."

The law prohibited most abortions once a "detectable world heartbeat" is present. However, since medical professionals say cardiac agency can be detected by ultrasound in cells within an embryo that will eventually get the heart as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, that meant most abortions in Georgia would be illegal beforehand many women knew they were pregnant.

The law made an exception for cases of rape and incest if a police portray was made first, and when the mother's life is at risk or a serious medical states renders a fetus unviable.

HB 481 also addressed with alimony, child support, and even income-tax deductions for fetuses, declaring that "the full value of a child begins at the display when a detectable human heartbeat exists."

In November 2022, a Fulton County deem overturned the ban.

What is the Reproductive Freedom Act?

The Reproductive Freedom Act, RFA, aims to take Roe v. Wade a step further, not only giving American women the right to make their own decisions nearby pregnancy, but also making access to abortions easier for anyone, regardless of gender identity or immigration status.

The act is triple tiered, focusing on protection of rights, rolling back restrictions and expanding admission. Activists say RFA would ensure abortion coverage in Medicaid and Obamacare insurance, eliminate Georgia's waiting period requirements and allow nurses and physician assistants to provided abortions.

Pro-life critics of the act maintain having an abortion is not an inalienable intellectual protected by the constitution.

"Our state values life from belief to natural death," Gov. Kemp said when floor heads Jodi Lott, R-Evans, and Dominic LaRiccia, R-Douglas, introduced pro-life legislation to the Georgia General Assembly on Feb. 28, 2019.

"We are pursuits everything we can because life matters, and we love each and every selves because they matter to God, therefore they matter to us," said extinct State Rep. Sheri Gilligan, R-Cumming, said during a rally at the state Capitol when a prepare of the Supreme Court decision against Roe v. Wade was leaked last May.