ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive its biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women.

Since June 2022, Georgia has prohibited all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, when many women might not know they are pregnant, except in cases of rape, incest or when necessary to prevent "irreversible physical impairment" or death of the mother.