Abortion Law Prompts 200+ ABA Members to Protest Plan to Hold 2021 Meeting in Atlanta
The ABA Board of Governors is scheduled to discuss on Friday whether to move the 2021 ABA Midyear Meeting from Orlando, Florida, to Atlanta.
The ABA Journal reports that 243 ABA members urged the board of governors in a letter not to select Atlanta as an alternate site “in light of Georgia’s new draconian anti-choice legislation.”
The ABA originally was planned the meeting for Orlando, but that venue would have required the organization to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars more in food and beverage fees than necessary. When the original plans were made, the midyear meeting had a larger footprint, reports the Journal‘s Amanda Robert.
The Standing Committee on Meetings and Travel decided to recommend Atlanta in late April. But then in May Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law that would ban abortion as early as six weeks into a woman’s pregnancy.
