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In Atlanta, Georgia on September 21 and September 28, 2024, rallies and vigils for Amber Thurman and Candi Miller were held outside of the Georgia Supreme Court and the Georgia Capitol Building, to demand the repeal of Georgia's 6-week abortion ban and the legalization of abortion nationwide. [59] [60]
The Georgia House Bill 481, formally named the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, is an American anti-abortion law passed in 2019 that sought to prevent physicians in the U.S. state of Georgia from performing abortions beyond six weeks, except in special situations. The bill was strongly criticized and, notably, many celebrities ...
It was one of a wave of restrictive abortion laws passed in Republican-controlled states after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and ended a national right to abortion.
The six-week abortion ban was enacted in 2022, shortly after the Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade. Physicians in the state can now provide abortions until fetal viability, reverting to Georgia ...
The Georgia Supreme Court Monday reinstated Georgia’s six-week abortion ban while the state appeals last week’s Fulton County Superior Court decision declaring the law unconstitutional.
It was passed in 2019 but did not take effect until the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 overturned its longstanding Roe v. Wade precedent, Judge blocks Georgia law banning abortion after six weeks of ...
McBurney had previously blocked the abortion ban in November 2022 on narrower grounds, but the state's Supreme Court quickly overturned that ruling and sent the case back to McBurney for trial.
Georgia’s law was passed by state lawmakers and signed by Kemp in 2019 but had been blocked from taking effect until the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had protected the right to an ...