Georgia’s law banning abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy remains in place after a ruling from Georgia’s highest court on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court of Georgia reversed a lower court ruling that found parts of Georgia’s abortion ban were void from inception, allowing the law to stay in place and sending it back to a Fulton County court to consider other claims not addressed in this challenge.
The majority opinion on the state’s House Bill 481, also called the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, holds that the trial court “erred in concluding, based on since-overruled decisions of the United States Supreme Court, that the LIFE Act violated the U.S. Constitution when the Act was enacted.”
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