The fight over Georgia’s on-again, off-again abortion law continues.
Republican Attorney General Chris Carr has appealed a Fulton County judge’s ruling striking down the ban on abortions after about six weeks, the Associated Press reported. The attorney general wants the Georgia Supreme Court to reinstate the law.
On Monday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C.I. McBurney struck down the state’s law, lawmakers passed in 2019 with House Bill 481, the Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act.
The ruling follows an October 2023 state Supreme Court decision about whether the measure was void from the start under a special provision of the Georgia Constitution because it violated the U.S. Constitution at the time it was enacted in 2019. Roe v. Wade was in place at the time.
“The six-week abortion ban was a deeply harmful law that stripped women of their autonomy and disproportionately impacted marginalized communities,” state Sen. Nabilah Islam Parkes, D–Duluth, said in a Tuesday statement. “With this ruling, we take a critical step toward protecting women’s right to choose in Georgia.”
According to the Associated Press, Carr said the state Supreme Court has jurisdiction since his office is challenging the constitutionality of a state law.
