Georgia Supreme Court reinstates 6-week abortion ban while appeal is underway

The Georgia Supreme Court docket on Monday restored the state’s six-week abortion ban, halting a decide’s ruling per week in the past that the six-week ban is unconstitutional and abortions might proceed previous six weeks. 

The six-week ban will stay in place whereas Georgia’s highest court docket considers the state’s attraction. 

That implies that for now, abortions is not going to be allowed in Georgia past six weeks of being pregnant, typically earlier than many ladies are conscious that they are pregnant. 

After the U.S. Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, a regulation went into impact in Georgia prohibiting most abortions as soon as cardiac exercise is detected, which is usually round six weeks. The abortion debate has been working its method via Georgia courts ever since. 

Final week, Fulton County Superior Court docket Decide Robert McBurney, in placing down the six-week ban, wrote in his order that whereas “the State’s curiosity in defending ‘unborn’ life is compelling, till that life might be sustained by the State … the steadiness of rights favors the girl.” 

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, the Republican who signed the six-week ban, issued an announcement following McBurney’s ruling, saying, “As soon as once more, the need of Georgians and their representatives has been overruled by the non-public beliefs of 1 decide. Defending the lives of essentially the most susceptible amongst us is certainly one of our most sacred tasks, and Georgia will proceed to be a spot the place we combat for the lives of the unborn.”

It is not but clear how lengthy it’s going to take the Georgia Supreme Court docket to think about the attraction. 

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