{"id":300604,"date":"2023-10-24T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T21:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=300604"},"modified":"2023-10-24T15:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:33:19","slug":"georgia-supreme-court-pro-life-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/georgia-supreme-court-pro-life-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Supreme Court allows state’s pro-life law to stand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Georgia Supreme Court has – for now – kept the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act in place, protecting virtually all preborn children from abortion within the state. On October 24, the court rejected<\/a> a lower court’s ruling calling the law invalid, meaning that the law will continue to stay in place for the time being.<\/p>\n

Originally signed in 2019<\/a>, the law was not able to take effect until Roe v. Wade<\/em> was overturned in 2022. Almost immediately, the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of a coalition of pro-abortion groups, including Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Fulton County Judge Robert C.I. McBurney issued a block on the law in November, calling it \u201cunequivocally unconstitutional\u201d because it had been enacted before the fall of Roe<\/em>. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr appealed the ruling, asking the Supreme Court to step in; they temporarily allowed the law<\/a>\u00a0to be reinstated until the Supreme Court’s final ruling.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press reported<\/a> that the Supreme Court ruled against McBurney in a 6-1 ruling.<\/p>\n