Georgia Prosecutors Stand Firm Against Abortion Ban After Ruling

Georgia’s elected prosecutors and a state lawmaker said they stand by their commitments against criminalizing reproductive health decisions after a federal appeals court allowed the state’s six-week abortion ban to take effect.

Democratic lawmakers and officials have been voicing their opposition to efforts that threaten abortion rights following the US Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Seven Georgia prosecutors signed a nationwide joint statement last month declining to use their offices’ resources to criminalize abortion.

“Everybody who proactively made those commitments were already aware” that state Republicans were pushing to have Georgia’s abortion law go into effect, Georgia ...