Georgia Abortion Law Should Take Effect, Appeals Court Rules
deadline.comA federal appeals court ruled today that Georgia’s restrictive 2019 abortion law should be allowed to take effect, overruling a lower court.The three-judge panel of the 11th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals said the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Mississippi case that overturned Roe v. Wade and returned abortion law to the states, “makes clear no right to abortion exists under the Constitution, so Georgia may prohibit them.”The law in Georgia — a massive film and television production hub — law bans most abortions when there’s a detectable human heartbeat, which can be as early as six week, before women know they are pregnant.
It has exceptions for rape and incest if a police report is filed, if the mother’s life is at risk, or the fetus is medically unviable.The appeals court also rejected arguments that an unusual “personhood” provision that’s part of the law is unconstitutionally vague.
It gives a fetus the same legal rights as everyone else with far-reaching implications and is also outside the purview of both Roe v.
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