The Georgia Supreme Courtroom on Monday restored the state’s six-week abortion ban, halting a decide’s ruling every 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 enchantment.
That implies that for now, abortions is not going to be allowed in Georgia past six weeks of being pregnant, usually earlier than many ladies are conscious that they are pregnant.
After the U.S. Supreme Courtroom 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 often round six weeks. The abortion debate has been working its approach by way of Georgia courts ever since.
Final week, Fulton County Superior Courtroom Decide Robert McBurney, in putting down the six-week ban, wrote in his order that whereas “the State’s curiosity in defending ‘unborn’ life is compelling, till that life may be sustained by the State … the stability of rights favors the lady.”
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 desire of Georgians and their representatives has been overruled by the non-public beliefs of 1 decide. Defending the lives of essentially the most weak amongst us is one among our most sacred tasks, and Georgia will proceed to be a spot the place we battle for the lives of the unborn.”
It isn’t but clear how lengthy it can take the Georgia Supreme Courtroom to think about the enchantment.
“We’ll proceed to name out these excessive agendas that we’re seeing from the opposite facet, from Republicans,” White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre instructed reporters Monday after the Georgia Supreme Courtroom issued the keep. “It is very important say how harmful that is. And the way it is a freedom that has been taken away from ladies.”