Almost a week after a federal court allowed Georgia’s restrictive 2019 abortion law to take effect, providers of abortion services and abortion-rights advocacy groups are challenging the law in Fulton County State Court.
Georgia’s law known as H.B. 481 bans most abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy, when electrical activity can be detected in the womb and before many people know they are pregnant.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the law to take effect last week following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling overturning Roe v. Wade abortion guarantees.
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