The Georgia Supreme Court reinstated a law allowing abortions up to six weeks when it put a halt on a previous court’s decision from last week allowing them up to the 22-week mark.
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday stopped a lower court’s ruling from last week that allowed abortions up to 22 weeks, as opposed to six weeks, as it considers an appeal filed by the state.
The order from the state Supreme Court came a week after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled that abortions must be regulated the way they were before the « Heartbeat Law » went into effect, meaning abortions could be allowed until the 22-week mark.
« The State should not be in the business of enforcing laws that have been determined to violate fundamental rights guaranteed to millions of individuals under the Georgia Constitution », Ellington wrote. « The ‘status quo’ that should be maintained is the state of the law before the challenged laws took effect. »
Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed the « Heartbeat » abortion bill, also known as the Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, into law in 2019.
