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A federal judge Monday overturned Georgia’s “heartbeat” law banning abortion essentially after six weeks of pregnancy. In a 26-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Robert McBurney declared the ...
Georgia’s Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban, halting a ruling from a trial court judge from just one week ago that had overturned the law. The order takes ...
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.
The 7–2 ruling invalidated the law in Georgia that said a woman needed to seek and attain permission from three physicians before she could have an abortion performed on her. The Court said Georgia's law put too many restrictions on women seeking to get abortions, making it unconstitutional. [31] [32] Number of abortion clinics in Georgia by year
The six-week abortion ban was enacted in 2022, shortly after the Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade.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 ...
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. It ...
A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, struck down the state's six-week abortion ban Monday, allowing the procedure to resume and making it legal up to 22 weeks of pregnancy.. The state law, known as ...
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.