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Georgia patients sent home after abortion ban comes into effect

Protesters demand access to abortion after the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v Wade ruling, in Atlanta, Georgia, May 3, 2022 [File: Alyssa Pointer/Reuters]

When the abortion law in the US state of Georgia abruptly changed this week, some patients waiting for the procedure that had been legal just hours earlier had to be turned away.

Melissa Grant, chief operating officer of Carafem, a Washington-based group that operates a reproductive health clinic in Atlanta, called the process of sending home four patients terrible.

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