ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican attorney general has appealed a judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s abortion ban.
Attorney General Chris Carr’s office is asking the Georgia Supreme Court to reinstate the law banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy while the court considers the state’s appeal.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled Monday that the ban, in effect since 2022, violates women’s rights to freedom and privacy under Georgia’s state constitution. His decision shifted the state’s abortion limits to an earlier law that allowed abortions until viability, about 22 to 24 weeks into pregnancy.
Some Georgia clinic officials said they would start accepting patients whose pregnancies last longer than six weeks, though they are aware the ban could be reinstated quickly.
Carr’s office noted in its appeal filed Tuesday that the case goes directly to Georgia’s highest court because it challenges the constitutionality of a state law.
The judge’s ruling resulted in a ban on abortion at all stages of pregnancy in thirteen American states, and in three states after the first six weeks of pregnancy.
