ATLANTA, GEORGIA – On September 16, 2024, ECBAWM client Mackenzie Kulik was called to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law in a field hearing entitled, “How Georgia’s Abortion Ban Harms Women: Health Care in Jeopardy.”  Mrs. Kulik, a public health researcher by trade, told the Subcommittee her harrowing account of requiring an abortion due to life-threatening medical complications during pregnancy but not qualifying for one under Georgia’s abortion laws.

“If I had not been able to travel out of state, I would have been forced to carry a non-viable pregnancy until the baby died in utero. Or I would have developed an infection that threatened my health enough to qualify for an intervention. Or I would have had to deliver a baby only to watch her suffer. Her underdeveloped lungs would never have the chance to take a breath of air on their own,” Mrs. Kulik testified.

Mrs. Kulik is represented by ECBAWM attorney Dan Eisenberg.

Mrs. Kulik’s written statement to the Subcommittee can be found here.

A recording of the hearing can be viewed here.

Media coverage of the hearing can be found here and here.