{"id":206718,"date":"2024-09-30T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?post_type=syndication&p=206718"},"modified":"2024-09-30T17:27:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:27:52","slug":"georgias-heartbeat-abortion-law-struck-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=206718","title":{"rendered":"Georgia’s Heartbeat Abortion Law Struck Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney has struck down Georgia’s six-week abortion ban. Stanley Dunlap\/Georgia Recorder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Fulton County judge has ruled that Georgia\u2019s six-week abortion ban is unconstitutional under the state constitution, allowing abortions to be performed again in Georgia as before the law took effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney released his long-awaited ruling <\/a>Monday on the broader question at the center of a lawsuit filed in 2022: Does the Georgia Constitution\u2019s protections for liberty and privacy include a right to an abortion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McBurney has concluded that it does \u2013 to a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA review of our higher courts\u2019 interpretations of \u2018liberty\u2019 demonstrates that liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices,\u201d McBurney wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat power is not, however, unlimited,\u201d he added. \u201cWhen a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then \u2013 and only then \u2013 may society intervene.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McBurney had previously ruled that Georgia\u2019s abortion law should be thrown out because it was unconstitutional when passed in 2019, which was three years before the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal right to an abortion. But the Georgia Supreme Court overturned McBurney\u2019s ruling<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia\u2019s law bans most abortion once fetal cardiac activity is detected, which is about six weeks into a pregnancy and before most women know they are pregnant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the ruling, abortions in Georgia are once again allowed up to about 22 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney has struck down Georgia’s six-week abortion ban. Stanley Dunlap\/Georgia Recorder A Fulton County judge has ruled that Georgia\u2019s six-week abortion ban is unconstitutional under the state constitution, allowing abortions to be performed again in Georgia as before the law took effect. Fulton County Superior Court Judge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11786],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}