Georgia Judge Lifts Six-Week Abortion Ban After Deaths of Two Women Who Couldn’t Access Care
Abortion clinics rushed to provide care after a judge rejected the state’s ban, an order that could soon be paused by a higher court. It’s only the latest development since ProPublica reported the deaths of Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller.
What a Georgia Judge’s Decision to Strike Down Six-Week Abortion Ban Means
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his decision that the six-week abortion ban, which was passed in 2019 but went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, violated Georgia’s constitution. The decision allows the state to resume abortions up until about 22 weeks of pregnancy.
Thurman died in 2022 after waiting 20 hours at a hospital to get treatment for a rare complication from taking an abortion ...
Georgia's Republican attorney general is appealing a judge's ruling that the state's abortion ban is unconstitutional ...
Attorney Ben Crump joined Amber's mother and two sisters to announce the lawsuit and elaborate on their push for justice in ...
But the vice presidential nominees disagreed over whether the state’s abortion ban was to blame for her death.
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