Appeals court allows Georgia abortion law to take effect
This is a fetal heartbeat law
By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) – A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling and said Georgia’s restrictive 2019 abortion law could take effect immediately.
The Georgia law bans most abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is present.
Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound in cells within an embryo that will eventually become the heart as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
That’s before many women realize they’re pregnant.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Mississippi case that overturned Roe v. Wade clears the way for the law to take effect. The Georgia law had been on hold.
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