ATLANTA — Georgia’s Republican legal professional normal has appealed a choose’s ruling that struck down the state’s abortion ban.
Legal professional Normal Chris Carr’s workplace is asking the Georgia Supreme Court docket to reinstate the legislation banning most abortions after the primary six weeks or so of being pregnant whereas the courtroom considers the state’s attraction.
Fulton County Superior Court docket Decide Robert McBurney dominated Monday that the ban in place since 2022 violated girls’s rights to liberty and privateness underneath Georgia’s state structure. His determination rolled again abortion limits within the state to a previous legislation that allowed abortions till viability, roughly 22 to 24 weeks right into a being pregnant.
Some Georgia clinic officers stated they might start accepting sufferers whose pregnancies are previous six weeks’ gestation, although they’re conscious the ban may very well be reimposed shortly.
Carr’s workplace famous in its discover of attraction filed Tuesday that the case goes straight to Georgia’s highest courtroom as a result of it includes a problem to the constitutionality of a state legislation.
The choose’s ruling left 13 U.S. states with bans on abortion in any respect levels of being pregnant and three that bar them after the primary six weeks or so of being pregnant.
