ATLANTA — The Georgia attorney general’s office has asked the state Supreme Court to reinstate the restrictive abortion law that a Fulton County judge struck down earlier this week. In a court filing , Georgia Solicitor General Stephen Petrany asked the justices to “affirm basic constitutional principles” and put on hold an order made by Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney earlier this week, which determined the state’s abortion law violated the state constitution because it denied a woman’s right to liberty by not allowing her to make decisions about her own body. In 2019, Georgia passed a law that bans most abortions once a medical professional can detect fetal cardiac activity, typically about six weeks into a pregnancy and before many know they are pregnant.
The law took effect in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
Wade, which had guaranteed the national right to an abortion for nearly 50 years. In its request, the state said there is no right to an “elective abortion” in the Georgia Constitution, adding that the right to privacy doesn’t include abortion because it “always harms a third party.” “Every day that illegal abortions continue is another day that the lives of tiny, unique individuals are ended.
There are toddlers alive today because this Court stayed the superior court’s previous order,” Petrany wrote in the motion. In a press release, American Civil Liberties Union attorneys, representing abortion rights advo.