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You can see the law at dph.georgia.gov/womens-right-know-wrtk. The Woman’s Right to Know Act provides that an abortion can only be performed in Georgia after “voluntary and informed consent of the female” at least 24 hours before the abortion except in a medical emergency.
0:00. 1:07. Abortion is still legal in Georgia, with a law that bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. The exact point in a pregnancy at which abortion is no longer legal will vary from person to person, depending on how how quickly fetal cardiac activity is detected. If a woman is past 6 weeks pregnant, there is an option to travel ...
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed the state's near-total abortion ban, known as the LIFE Act, in 2019, but it didn’t take effect until July 2022, after it faced a legal challenge and the U.S....
Georgia has continually sought to legislate against abortion at a state level since 2011. The most recent example, 2019's HB 481, [8] sought to make abortion illegal as soon as embryonic cardiac-cell activity can be detected; in most cases that is around the six-week mark of a pregnancy.
The exytremely strict abortion laws in Georgia differ from those in other states, so it's important to know what's legal and what isn't. Learn about gestational age, fetal viability, Roe v. Wade, and much more at FindLaw.com.
On September 30, 2024, the Superior Court of Fulton County struck down Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, finding that the State Constitution does not allow politicians to deny Georgians’ fundamental right to make their own decisions about their bodies, their health, and their futures.
ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court issued a ruling today that allows H.B. 481, a ban on abortion after approximately six weeks of pregnancy, to remain in effect. The court’s majority opinion disregards long-standing precedent that a law violating either the state or federal Constitution at the time of its enactment is void from the start ...
Holding that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision overruling Roe effectively erased from history the half-century of federal constitutional decisions protecting a fundamental right to abortion, the Georgia Supreme Court allowed H.B. 481 to remain in place.
ATLANTA — The Superior Court of Fulton County today struck down Georgia’s ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, allowing health care providers in the state to once again provide essential abortion and miscarriage care to Georgians beyond the earliest weeks in pregnancy.
ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court Wednesday reinstated the state’s ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. In a one-page order, the high court put a lower court ruling...