Georgia Supreme Court ruling reinstates 6-week abortion ban

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Georgia Supreme Court ruling reinstates 6-week ********* ban

Oct. 7 (UPI) — The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lower court’s ruling that says the state’s near-total ********* ban was unconstitutional, according to news reports.

Last Monday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney’s ruling said Georgia’s ********* law was unconstitutional, which then temporarily allowed the medical procedure to be performed even if there was a detection of a fetal heartbeat.

“Liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights,” he

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, “the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to ******* state interference with her healthcare choices.”

But the state’s high court

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returns Georgia’s six-week ********* ban that was signed into law in 2019 by two-term Gov. Brian Kemp, a ***********.

That law provides full legal recognition to fetuses and bans the medical procedure after cardiac activity is detected, which generally occurs around the six-week mark — a time before most women know they are pregnant.

“When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then — and only then — may society intervene,” McBurney wrote last week.

On Wednesday after McBurney struck down the controversial law, Georgia’s *********** Attorney General, Chris Carr,

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Court to reinstate the so-called “Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act,” arguing in his appeal that there is no privacy right to *********.

The ban has been in effect since 2022 after the *************-leaning U.S. Supreme Court revoked federal protections for ********* by overturning the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling.

And the issue has taken a prominent role in this year’s election, with Vice President Kamala Harris making individual “freedom” a facet to her campaign. Meanwhile, the *********** nominee, ex-President Donald Trump, has more than once taken credit for overturning 50-year-old Roe vs. Wade protections.

A Georgia ACLU official was critical of the Peach State’s elected officials, saying they are disrespecting Georgia women.

“We will persist, using all lawful means to restore dignity, full citizenship and a right to privacy for Georgia’s women,” said executive director Andrea Young.

Monica Simpson, executive director for SisterSong Women of ****** Reproductive Justice Collective,

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by Georgia’s highest court “unconscionable.”

“Denying our community members the lifesaving care they deserve jeopardizes their lives, safety, and health — all for the sake of power and control over our bodies,” she added.

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