Abortion providers and advocacy groups filed a new lawsuit Tuesday challenging Georgia’s abortion law based on privacy protections in the state Constitution.
The law passed in 2019 effectively bans most abortions about six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women know they’re pregnant.
A federal judge ruled it unconstitutional and blocked it, but a federal appeals court last week allowed it to take effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had protected the right to an abortion for nearly five decades.
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