Georgia Top Court Reinstates Six-Week Abortion Ban Law (3)

Georgia once again can enforce its ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, the state’s top court said Monday.

The state supreme court, with one dissent, halted Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C.I. McBurney’s Sept. 30 order striking the law pending the state’s appeal. McBurney held that Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act “infringes upon a woman’s fundamental rights” under the Georgia Constitution “to make her own healthcare choices and to decide what happens to her body, with her body, and in her body.”

Forcing “a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates ...