Health care providers at the center of a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s six-week abortion ban say the new law has limited their ability to care for patients whose wellbeing may be at risk.
But attorneys for the state invited out-of-state medical providers – including a Texas obstetrician and gynecologist whose credibility was questioned by a Florida judge this summer – to make the case that Georgia’s law leaves room for physicians to use their best judgment when faced with a medical emergency threatening the life of a pregnant woman.
The debate over the narrow exceptions included in Georgia’s abortion ban were at the center of a two-day proceeding focused on whether the state’s six-week ban on most abortions runs afoul of the state constitutional right to privacy.
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