The Supreme Court of Georgia has opted to reinstate the state’s ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
Last week, a Fulton County Superior Court judge ruled abortion clinics could perform abortions beyond the earliest weeks of pregnancy, prompting Attorney General Chris Carr to appeal. The state’s highest court halted the trial court’s ruling, reinstating Georgia’s abortion ban codified in 2019 with House Bill 481, the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act.
The ruling goes into effect at 5 p.m.
The Supreme Court left in place, for now, the trial court’s ruling blocking a separate provision of the law giving state prosecutors broad access to the medical records of abortion patients absent any due process protections such as notice to the patient or a subpoena. This part of the ruling is unrelated to the ban itself.