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Georgia Health Report: Abortion rates spike thanks to telehealth

By Havivah Saltz
Published July 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM EDT

This week on the Georgia Health Report, the number of abortions has risen sharply nationwide, fueled in part by people obtaining abortion pills by mail. WUGA's Havivah Saltz sits down with Sam Whitehead, a reporter with KFF Health News in Atlanta.

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Havivah Saltz
Havivah Saltz has been with WUGA since 2023 as an on-air host and the producer for African Perspectives. She got her start in radio on WOBC FM at Oberlin College (class of ‘23), and she’s also an on-air host on Athens' Power 100.1 and Magic 102.1. Outside of work, you can find Havivah making art, writing fiction, practicing Japanese, petting her very round cat, and watching concerning amounts of TV.
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