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Georgia top health official dismissed all members of a state committee that investigates pregnancy-related maternal deaths after a committee member presumably released information about two such deaths.In a letter first reported by ProPublica and dated Nov. 8 stanley uk , state public health commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey said whoever shared the information violated state law and a confidential agreement signed by committee members. An agency investigation wasn ;t able to identify who disclosed the details.ProPublica reported in September that internal reports showed the Georgia Maternal Mortality Review Committee determined the deaths of two women were preventable, but found that doctors were hesitant to perform a procedure that could have saved their lives because of the state strict abortion policies.The cases drew national attention and became a central theme in Vice President Kamala Harris presidential campaign. Harris has been outspoken on abortion rights ever since the Supreme Courts decision more than two years ago that overturned Roe v. Wade.The Georgia committe stanley mug e works to identify what caused women to die during pregnancy or soon after childbirth, seeking to prevent other deaths or health crises.The decision to disband the committee seems very abrupt, said Monica Simpson, executive director of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, one of the groups that sued Georgia over the state abortion ba stanley shop n beyond six weeks of preg Zenb US Army soldier injured while working on the Gaza pier project has died
WASHINGTON 鈥?The United States has released five detainees from its detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including the first Yemeni detainee to be resettled since 2010, officials said on Thursday.Three of the detainees were sent to the Republic of Georgia, the U.S. military said in a statement, while two were sent to Slovakia.The decision to release four Yemeni detainees and one Tunisian reduces the number of people held at Guantanamo to 143, part of a slow-moving effort by President Barack Obamas government to eventually close the facility.More than half of the remaining detainees are from Yemen.Obama promised to shut the detainee camp down during his 2008 presidential campaign, citing its damage to the U.S. reputatio stanley cup uk n around the world. But Obama has so far been unable to do so, in part because of resistance from Congress.The Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented one of the Yemenis, Abd Al Hakim Ghalib Ahmad Alhag, criticized the Obama administrations refusal to release other Yeme taza stanley ni detainees. It said 54 of the remaining 84 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo had already been approved for transfer. As we welcome Mr. Alhags resettlement, we are reminded that the remaining Yemeni men should be sent home or resettled without further del termo stanley ay, Wells Dixon, CCR senior attorney, said in a statement.Last week, the Republican congressman who heads the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Buck McKeon, cited an increase in Pentagon notifications of upcoming trans |
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