Georgia’s six-week abortion ban is unconstitutional, a Fulton County superior courtroom decide dominated Monday, allowing abortions to happen within the state later into pregnancies.
The order means Georgia cannot implement the six-week ban that took impact in 2022. Abortions could proceed to be carried out till round 22 weeks of being pregnant, which was the case previous to the ban.
Fulton County Superior Court docket Choose Robert McBurney 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 lady.”
“For these ladies, the freedom of privateness implies that they alone ought to select whether or not they function human incubators for the 5 months main as much as viability,” McBurney wrote. “It isn’t for a legislator, a decide, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Story to inform these ladies what to do with their our bodies throughout this era when the fetus can not survive outdoors the womb any extra so than society may — or ought to — power them to function a human tissue financial institution or to surrender a kidney for the advantage of one other.”
When the Supreme Court docket overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade choice in 2022, Georgia grew to become one of many states the place an computerized ban was triggered. The 2019 Georgia regulation, banning abortions as soon as cardiac exercise is detected, usually round six weeks right into a being pregnant, then went into impact.
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