Pregnancy & Criminalization in Georgia: Substance Use, Family Policing, and Reproductive Justice

Launched in 2025 as a direct response to Georgia’s deep maternal health crisis and the ongoing human rights abuses impacting birthing people across the state, this campaign provides public legal education, thought advocacy, and trusted resources to help communities navigate Georgia’s increasingly restrictive reproductive healthcare landscape with dignity and self-determination.

For Episode III, the Justice, Law, and Policy Project, SisterLove’s legal advocacy arm, has partnered with Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice, and Emilie T. Cook, Esq. with the Barton Center at Emory Law, to present a comprehensive and holistic legal webinar on how pregnancy is policed in Georgia, with a focus on substance use and the family policing system.

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