The Supreme Court of Georgia has announced March 28, 2023, as the date when justices are expected to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion restrictions. The case has been moving through the courts since last summer.
Georgia’s 2019 abortion law, known as House Bill 481, bans abortions after around six weeks of pregnancy, when cardiac activity can often be detected in the womb but before many women even know they’re pregnant.
Attorneys from the ACLU representing Georgia abortion-rights advocates and abortion providers sued to block the law after a federal court allowed it to take effect.
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