Georgia’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Held to Violate Women’s Rights

Georgia’s LIFE Act “infringes upon a woman’s fundamental rights to make her own healthcare choices and to decide what happens to her body, with her body, and in her body,” a state trial court judge said Monday.

And the ban isn’t narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest, the judge said, striking down a law that prohibits abortions after about six weeks’ gestation.

Women have a right to privacy embodied in the Georgia Constitution’s fundamental protection for life and liberty, Judge Robert C.I. McBurney, of the Georgia Superior Court, Fulton County, said. And forcing “a woman to carry ...