The Georgia Supreme Court revived the state's restrictive abortion law on Wednesday, a week after a state judge declared it unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court's decision in the women's health case is being protested by abortion rights advocates.
The Georgia Supreme Court issued a one-page ruling granting the state government's request to pause a lower court order that declared the ban illegal while the case is appealed.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled on November 15 that the six-week ban was unconstitutional because it was enacted in 2019.
Abortion rights advocates and physicians sued to overturn the law in July after a federal court allowed it to take effect, arguing that the law violated the Georgia Constitution and its privacy protections.
SisterSong Women of Color reproductive justice collective has not responded to a request for comment.
35,988. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, that is the number of abortions that took place in Georgia in the most recent year for which data is available. If the procedure had remained legal, there would be more abortions in the state in 2022.
McBurney wrote in his ruling striking down the ban that it was unconstitutional for the government to ban abortions before viability. When the six-week ban was enacted in Georgia, it was not the law of the state.
The Georgia case is part of a wave of lawsuits that have challenged state-level abortion bans in state courts. In addition to Georgia, state bans have been at least temporarily paused in Indiana, Arizona, North Dakota, Ohio, West Virginia, South Carolina, Wyoming, Louisiana, Utah and Texas since June. Georgia is one of more than a dozen states that mostly outlaws abortions, but it is the only state that has a six-week ban in effect instead of a total abortion ban at all points during a pregnant woman's life.
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