Judge Rules Abortions In Georgia LEGAL Up To 22 WEEKS

The decision to strike down the latest abortion ban was made by a Fulton County Superior Court judge, who called the six-week ban “arbitrary.” 

“That power is not, however, unlimited,” Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his ruling. “When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then — and only then — may society intervene.”

Judge Mary H. Murguia responded to the ruling that “liberty as we define it in this country includes the right of a woman to control her own body, to choose if and when to have some or all of its implications.”

Abortion in Georgia is now legal before viability — when a fetus can survive outside the womb, usually around 22 weeks of pregnancy. On the one hand, take noteBabies do have survived after being born earlier, it just comes with bigger risks. The earlier ban prohibited abortions once fetal cardiac activity is detected at about six weeks of pregnancy.

The decision is the second time Georgia has overturned the six-week abortion ban. The law, which went into effect in July 2022, had previously been put on hold and was first vacated in November of that year.

The state government just as hastily appealed and soon the case was returned to Fulton County by the Georgia Supreme Court for more examination.

Abortions in Georgia fell by half following the ban, with the Society of Family Planning estimating 4.

In the run-up to the ruling, several false reports appeared saying two women had died as a result of the abortion ban.