ALBANY – A Fulton County judge overturned Georgia’s six-week abortion ban on Sept. 2. Days later, the state’s Republican attorney general appealed the judge’s ruling.
Robert McBurney, a Fulton County Superior Court Judge ruled that the ban, which had been in place since 2022, violated women’s rights to liberty and privacy under the state constitution. The decision returned abortion limits in the state to the prior law that allowed abortions up to about 22 to 24 weeks into a pregnancy.
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