{"id":280421,"date":"2022-11-23T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=280421"},"modified":"2022-11-27T18:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T00:43:52","slug":"georgia-supreme-court-reinstates-georgia-life-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/georgia-supreme-court-reinstates-georgia-life-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Supreme Court reinstates the Georgia LIFE Act"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Georgia Supreme Court has reinstated the state’s LIFE Act, which protects preborn children from abortion when a heartbeat can be detected, usually at six weeks.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney issued a stay<\/a> on the law, claiming two parts of the law were \u201cplainly unconstitutional when drafted, voted upon, and enacted,\u201d and, therefore, could not be enforced. Pro-abortion organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective sued to block the law, and previously McBurney had declared<\/a> it could stand during the court battle to overturn it.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0alleged that the LIFE Act violated the Georgia Constitution\u2019s right to privacy and liberty because it “forces” pregnancy and childbirth on women. The plaintiffs also claimed it violated U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it was enacted, as Roe v. Wade<\/em> had not yet been overturned when the Georgia law was instituted. McBurney agreed with this argument, writing that when the law was passed, \u201ceverywhere in America, including Georgia, it was unequivocally unconstitutional for governments \u2014 federal, state, or local \u2014 to ban abortions before viability.\u201d<\/p>\n

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