Augusta, GA
Activists speak for reproductive, abortion rights at Augusta, Ga., rally
“I do not need to be right here,” stated one of many audio system on the reproductive rights protest on Saturday, Could 21. “I am right here as a result of I’ve a narrative to inform that I feel is necessary for everyone to listen to.”
She proceeded to speak about how she grew to become pregnant in 2012, and it was all going in response to plan, till she started to really feel harsh, power pains. It was decided the pains had been physique recollections from when she had been intercourse trafficked as a baby.
“My query, for these opposing the correct to secure abortions is ‘Will you look me within the eye and inform me I’ve to proceed on a being pregnant that’s triggering me into reliving being raped over and again and again?’” she requested.
Her husband, who was standing within the crowd, stated to listen to her inform her story publicly, for the primary time, “I nearly cried. It was wonderful.”
Sharing tales and messages like these had been the main focus of the protest on the Augusta Frequent, which was in response to the leaked Supreme Courtroom opinion draft from early Could that means a potential overturn of the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortions nationwide.
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“I began this two weeks in the past, the day that the Roe opinion leaked, as a result of I used to be sobbing,” stated organizer Beth Grey, “occupied with what would occur sooner or later, not solely to me however to each considered one of you and everybody else on this nation.”
Grey assembled the protest with the assistance of the Fb web page she created after the leak. The personal web page, known as “Reproductive Rights Protesting, Augusta,” had collected greater than 1,000 members, as of Saturday.
That introduced over 120 activists out to the protest, lots of whom had been sporting T-shirts and holding indicators that had messages like “Cease Regulating My Future” and “Somebody You Love Could Want A Selection.”
It was a really numerous group; with a few of the individuals being professionals on this area, like intercourse educator Jennifer Runamok. She cited {that a} United Nations group discovered, in 2017, that international locations the place ladies have abortion rights in addition to info about and strategies of contraception have the bottom abortion charges.
“If we’re striving for a world the place each youngster is needed and cared for and guarded equally below the regulation, there are higher methods to perform this than outlawing abortion,” she stated.
Different attendees had been younger newcomers, like Elle Garcia, 17, who recalled how, in center college, she and different women had been pulled out of sophistication to participate in a session whereby she was given “abstinence playing cards,” which they had been required to signal.
“I used to be 13 years previous signing away my virginity,” Garcia stated. “In that second, my future was determined for me.”
The protest was peaceable, however there was a second close to the tip the place three males in black and gold robes approached the gathering, stood face-to-face with just a few of the activists, pulled out a Bible and began studying verses from the E-book of Revelation. The particular verses had been unclear as they had been shortly drowned out by the repeated shouts of “My Physique, My Selection!”
The males left after a minute. They recognized solely as “The Israelites” and stated they didn’t include sick intent, however merely to unfold the phrase of God. They didn’t provide additional remark. Their title and uniforms point out they’re members of the Black Hebrew Israelites, a non secular motion with sects throughout the globe. In response to the Anti-Defamation League, the chapters have varied ideologies, with some being peaceable whereas others have expressed dangerous rhetoric, together with anti-abortion sentiments.
Many anti-abortion activists have used faith as a weapon, making religion a delicate topic in terms of these conversations. A number of of Saturday’s protesters had indicators with messages like “Your Beliefs Do not Outline My Rights” and “Preserve Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries.”
Bishop Gregory Godsey of the Diocese of St. Maximilian Kolbe, who was in attendance, expressed apologies to all ladies who’ve used religion as “a proper to discriminate in opposition to others, to refuse them very important medical care; as a result of there’s nothing in scripture that claims that in case you present medical care to an individual, and also you present one thing you imagine is opposite to your non secular beliefs, that it may harm your salvation in any means.”
Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta Pastor Nic Filzen additionally expressed regret for a way non secular beliefs are used on this means, and stated to the group, “Please know, there are religion traditions which might be on this struggle with you … you aren’t alone.”
Most of the protesters left with completely satisfied faces simply earlier than the rain began coming in at about 4 p.m. Grey stated she was thrilled by the turnout for the rally and is all for organizing extra sooner or later.
What’s Roe v. Wade impact on abortion legal guidelines?
Within the 1973 case, the Supreme Courtroom discovered that legal guidelines criminalizing abortions violated the U.S. Structure’s 14th Modification, which, in easy phrases, ensures equal protections for all Individuals. This set a nationwide precedent, although the 1991 Supreme Courtroom case of Deliberate Parenthood v. Casey gave states the correct to impose restricted restrictions.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, states shall be free to make abortion utterly unlawful. That is why President Biden and Democrats are working to codify abortion rights. On Could 11, laws to do this failed 49-51.
What are Georgia’s abortion legal guidelines?
Georgia limits abortions after 20 weeks put up fertilization, in response to the state chapter of Deliberate Parenthood. Nevertheless, if Roe v. Wade is repealed, the state’s controversial heartbeat invoice will go into impact, which might stop abortions as soon as a fetus’ heartbeat could be detected. The American Pediatric Affiliation says a heartbeat could also be detected as early as 5.5 to six.5 weeks into gestation. There are just a few exceptions to the regulation, like if a doctor determines there’s a medical emergency or that the being pregnant is medically futile. Abortion may additionally be allowed within the occasion of rape or incest if a police report has been filed and the possible gestational age of the unborn youngster is 20 weeks or much less.
In response to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights analysis and coverage group, eight different states have handed restrictions which might be blocked in court docket however would go into impact if the repeal occurs. It might additionally end in 13 states implementing whole or near-total bans on abortion, and 7 extra proscribing it to the “most extent permitted.”
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Deadly accident shuts down lanes on Deans Bridge Road
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – One person has died after a car crash on Deans Bridge Road on Saturday night, according to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Richmond County dispatchers said the call came in at 9:01 p.m. of a single-car accident with five passengers.
The driver was transported to a local hospital and later died due to their injuries, according to authorities.
The condition of the other passengers remains unknown.
The southbound lanes were shut down as of 10:15 p.m.
Drivers are encouraged to find an alternate route.
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The Dawg Days of summer hit the Junior Players with two (maybe) future UGA players leading
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Mason Howell birdies his last two holes, Hamilton Coleman posts the tournament’s low score on their way to the final group for Sunday’s final round at Players Stadium Course.
TPC Sawgrass, AJGA host the Junior Players Championship for the 18th year
The 18th Junior Players Championship is at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. It has become a Labor Day Weekend tradition on the First Coast.
One of the players in the final threesome of the 18th Junior Players Championship on Sunday has already decided to play golf at the University of Georgia — despite having two more years until his high school class graduates.
The other, with the same amount of time left in junior golf, still has an open mind. But he’d be bucking family tradition if he didn’t become a Bulldog.
Either way, they have more immediate issues at hand: battling it out in the final threesome in the final round of the Junior Players Championship, at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.
Mason Howell of Thomasville, Ga., birdied the hardest par-3 and the hardest par-5 holes on the course to polish off a 70 on Saturday, and at 5-under-par 139 has a one-shot lead over Hamilton Coleman of Augusta, Ga., (68, the tournament’s low round for the first two days), who birdied No. 17 and then made a gutsy par at the last to finish at 4-under.
Logan Reilly of Lovettsville, Va. (72), who held a share of the 18-hole lead, is in third at 3-under, Luke Colton of Frisco, Texas (72) is fourth at 2-under and Kailer Stone of Alameda, Calif. (71) is fifth at 1-under.
They are the only players who have broken par for the first 36 holes.
Reilly earned his spot in the final three some when he rallied from a stretch of three bogeys in four holes to birdie Nos. 8 and 9.
First Coast players lagging behind
After Miles Russell became the first resident of the First Coast to win the Junior Players last year — with Phillip Dunham of Ponte Vedra Beach finishing second and Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island in a tie for sixth — it will take an extraordinary final round for any of them to reach the top 10, much less contend.
Junior Players leaderboard
Junior Players final-round groups, tee times
Dunham (75) and Jackson Byrd of St. Simons Island, Ga., (73) are tied for 18th at 3-over. Dunham made only one birdie but it was at his final hole, the par-5 ninth.
Lucas Gimenez of Jacksonville had a wild ride over the Stadium Course, signing for a card that contained four pars, seven birdies, five bogeys and two double bogeys. It added up to a 74 and he’s tied for 31st at 5-over.
Russell got his score to even par through 13 holes and was only four off the lead at the time. But he bogeyed four of his last five holes and shot 76. He’s tied for 34th at 6-under with Mawhinney (77).
Ambrose Kinnare of St. Augustine (83) is tied for 68th at 15-over.
Junior Players leaders putt, scramble well
Both of the leaders said the course takes a mental toll on players, especially off the tee.
“The greens are in really good shape but you have to play really smart to get there,” said Howell, who hasn’t made a college decision yet but is from a Bulldog family — both his parents graduated from UGA. “If you have one lapse you’re in trouble. You can’t just walk up to a tee and whack at it.”
Coleman agreed with the sight lines off the Stadium Course tees.
“They are just so demanding,” he said. “There is not a breather hole off the tee. Every tee shot, you’re kind of stressing. Once you’re in the fairway and in the right position, you can kind of attack.”
Howell, Coleman get hot at different times
Howell is 14th on the AJGA Rolex Rankings and has five top-10 finishes this year in AGJA or national junior events, including a tie for fifth in the Western Junior.
He was 1-over for his first 10 holes after starting his round at the par-4 10th, then dropped birdie putts of 15 feet at No. 2 and 20 feet at No. 5. Howell capped his day when he drilled a 4-iron from 211 yards out to set up a 35-foot birdie putt at the par-3 eighth, then pitched onto the green of the par-5 ninth hole in three, and made a 3-footer.
Coleman, who verbally committed to Georgia last week, is 91st on the Rolex Rankings. He bounced back from a bogey at No. 2 with short birdie putts at Nos. 3, 4, 7 and 9, a stretch highlighted by a 6-iron against the wind from 176 yards out to within inches of the hole at the seventh.
Coleman birdied the 13th hole on a 15-foot putt at No. 13 and then chipped in from the right-front of the 14th green for birdie, negotiating a difficult angle to the front-left pin.
He almost holed out another short-game shot at the last. Coleman pushed his drive right and had to punch out from the trees. The ball rolled onto and over the green, settling into the left bunker. His sand shot tickled the edge of the hole before rolling 8 feet away, but he made the comebacker for par.
“I scrambled well, definitely,” Coleman said. “My irons have been really solid all week. I just need to tighten up the driver a little bit tomorrow.”
Howell, Coleman have played often
As South Georgia residents, Howell and Coleman know each other well and have played numerous times with and against each other and paired up for a practice round earlier in the week.
“He’s always fun to play with,” Coleman said. “Every time we play together we have fun.”
They also have a good track record on the First Coast. Howell is in his first Junior Players but he won the Billy Horschel Junior Championship on Oct. 5, 2023. Coleman tied for 18th in last year’s Junior Players and tied for third in the Horschel Junior Championship (which is played under a Stableford format), one point out of a playoff between Howell and Clark Van Gaalen.
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