{"id":209056,"date":"2019-08-24T10:25:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=209056"},"modified":"2019-08-23T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T22:06:43","slug":"georgia-ag-strong-stand-protect-unborn-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/georgia-ag-strong-stand-protect-unborn-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia AG takes strong stand: State has a duty to protect lives of ‘unborn children’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Attorney General for Georgia, Christopher Carr, has asked an Atlanta federal court to dismiss the lawsuit filed against Georgia\u2019s pro-life heartbeat law<\/a> that restricts abortion after the baby has a detectable heartbeat.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, led by the ACLU on behalf of Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective and others, argues that the law is too restrictive, as many women do not know they are pregnant when a preborn child’s heartbeat is first detectable, which can be as early as six weeks. The abortion activists have asked for a temporary injunction against the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cHouse Bill 481 bans abortion,\u201d reads the pro-abortion plaintiffs\u2019 argument according to court documents<\/a>. \u201cIt does so in clear violation of Roe v. Wade and nearly a half century of Supreme Court precedent reaffirming Roe\u2019s central holding. It is an affront to the dignity and health of Georgians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attorney General Carr responded<\/a> Monday by slamming the false notion that a woman can ever \u201cneed\u201d an abortion for health reasons, saying that the state \u201c[denies] all allegations in the complaint that killing a living unborn child constitutes \u2018medical care\u2019 or \u2018health care.\u2019\u201d He also frankly stated that the law is intended to be a constitutional challenge, affirming that the text of the law \u201cspeaks for itself.\u201d Carr asserted that, contrary to abortion activists\u2019 claims, not all pre-viability abortion bans are unconstitutional and argued that Georgia has the authority to pass this kind of a law on account of the Eleventh Amendment<\/a> to the Constitution, known as \u201csovereign immunity<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Debunking 6 myths surrounding Georgia\u2019s \u2018heartbeat bill\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n