Georgia's Six-Week Abortion Ban is now in Effect

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Georgia’s 6-Week Abortion Ban Begins Immediately After Court Ruling (Published 2022)

A federal appeals court said the law, which was signed in 2019 but quickly halted for violating Roe v. Wade, could go into effect.

www.nytimes.com

A federal appeals court panel immediately allowed a Georgia law that bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy to go into effect on Wednesday, ending a yearslong battle over one of the country’s most restrictive laws.

The law, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in 2019, prohibits most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which is typically when doctors can begin to detect a fetus’s cardiac activity. Exceptions to the law are allowed if a woman faces serious harm or death in pregnancy, or in cases of rape or incest, so long as a police report has been filed. Georgia law previously restricted abortions after about 20 weeks of pregnancy.

This was signed into effect in 2019 and shut down because it violated Roe V Wade

Now basically anyone who gets pregnant in Georgia/Atlanta is keeping that shyt

 

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BREAKING: Judge McBurney has STRUCK DOWN Georgia's abortion law saying it violates the Georgia constitution. This allows abortions to be performed up to 22 weeks. GDPR Support


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NEW: THREAD: A new ruling from Judge McBurney in Georgia overturning the abortion ban and allowing the procedure to continue has some REMARKABLE quotes. Let's take a look at just a few. 1/



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"While the State’s interest in protecting “unborn” life is compelling, until that life can be sustained by the State -- and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the State’s work -- the balance of rights favors the woman." 2/



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"Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote. Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, even taking into consideration whatever bundle of rights the not-yet-viable fetus may have." 3/



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"For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could -- or should -- force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another." 4/



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"When someone other than the pregnant woman is able to sustain the fetus, then -- and only then -- should those other voices have a say in the discussion about the decisions the pregnant woman makes concerning her body and what is growing within it." 5/



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"There is nothing so urgent or important to the State about the medical records of women who end pregnancies that the privacy rights of those women -- and the Fourth Amendment protections that attach to those rights -- can be bulldozed away by statutory enactment." 6/



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"...liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices." 7/



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"Accordingly, Section 4 of the LIFE Act is hereby DECLARED unconstitutional. The State and all its agents, to include any County, Municipal, or other local authority, are once again ENJOINED from seeking to enforce in any manner the LIFE Act’s PECAP termination ban in Georgia." END/



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Here is the full ruling: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25178630/mcburney-sistersong-final-order.pdf




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judge went in

 

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Fulton County and the metro atlanta area.....the saving grace of this hick state

 

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Georgia Fires Entire Committee on Maternal Mortality Over Leaked Report on Abortion Ban Deaths

The heartbreaking story of Amber Thurman was first reported in ProPublica earlier this year

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Georgia Fires Entire Committee on Maternal Mortality Over Leaked Report on Abortion Ban Deaths​

The heartbreaking story of Amber Thurman was first reported in ProPublica earlier this year​

Troy Matthews

Nov 22, 2024

Georgia's top health official, public health commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey, has fired every member of the state committee on maternal mortality over leaked stories of women in Georgia who died unnecessarily due to restrictive abortion bans.

The stories of the two women who died, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, were reported in ProPublica earlier this year. The stories laid bare how women are increasingly put in danger in a healthcare system in Georgia that requires doctors to abandon ethical care to adhere to extremist anti-choice ideologies.

Toomey said in a letter ⎻ published by ProPublica and dated November 8th, the week of Donald Trump's election ⎻ that whomever leaked the stories from the committee violated confidentiality agreements.

"Confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outside individuals," Toomey wrote. "Even though this disclosure was investigated, the investigation was unable to uncover which individual(s) disclosed confidential information."

"Therefore, effective immediately the current MMRC is disbanded, and all member seats will be filled through a new application process."

The move from Toomey, and ultimately from Governor Brian Kemp, will likely have the effect of silencing future committees from being critical of state abortion laws. Every state has maternal mortality review boards whose job is to gather data on deaths of women in childbirth and determine if the circumstances were preventable.

"They did what they were supposed to do. This is why we need them," said Monica Simpson, executive director of SisterSong, one of the groups challenging Georgia’s abortion ban in court. "To have this abrupt disbandment, my concern is what we are going to lose in the process, in terms of time and data?"

Other states with abortion bans like Texas have used similar methods, like disbanding committees and creating duplicate positions, to fill review board seats with anti-abortion activists. One such committee member from Texas, Nakeenya Wilson, was forced to reapply for her position after speaking out against the Texas abortion law, but was not reappointed.

"What message is being said to the families who lost their loved ones?" Wilson said. "There’s going to be even less accountability for this to not happen again."

Amber Thurman passed away from an infection after she was unable to get an abortion procedure to remove dead fetal tissue from her body. The procedure, a dilation and curettage (D&C), could land a doctor in Georgia in prison for up to ten years in a post-Roe United States. It is a highly common procedure, and her death was labeled preventable by the Georgia MMRC.

 

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Georgia’s 6-Week Abortion Ban Begins Immediately After Court Ruling (Published 2022)

A federal appeals court said the law, which was signed in 2019 but quickly halted for violating Roe v. Wade, could go into effect.

www.nytimes.com

This was signed into effect in 2019 and shut down because it violated Roe V Wade

Now basically anyone who gets pregnant in Georgia/Atlanta is keeping that shyt