{"id":319993,"date":"2024-10-08T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=319993"},"modified":"2024-10-07T19:29:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T00:29:17","slug":"georgia-supreme-court-temporarily-reinstates-heartbeat-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/georgia-supreme-court-temporarily-reinstates-heartbeat-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Supreme Court temporarily reinstates state’s ‘heartbeat law’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court temporarily reinstated<\/a> the state’s law protecting preborn children from abortion upon detectable heartbeat while it considers the state’s appeal of a lower court ruling, which had overturned the law.<\/p>\n

The Georgia Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act was signed by Governor Brian Kemp in 2019 but did not go into effect until the overturn of Roe v. Wade<\/em> in 2022. The law protects preborn children from abortion after a detectable heartbeat, which usually occurs around six weeks.<\/p>\n

On September 30, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney halted<\/a> the LIFE Act on the basis that it was “unconstitutional,” saying that a \u2018right to abortion\u2019 is included within the state constitution\u2019s \u201cprotections for liberty and privacy.\u201d With the LIFE Act repealed, abortions were allowed to resume up to 22 weeks gestation.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for the National Abortion Federation told<\/a> the New York Times that many abortion facilities in the state were able to “quickly resume” killing preborn children after McBurney’s ruling.<\/p>\n