Opponents of Georgia’s ban on most abortions after 20 weeks since fertilization have found comfortbut not strategyin a federal appeals court’s recent ruling against a similar law in Arizona.
Rather than relying on the federal principles that felled Arizona’s law, the Georgia plaintiffs argue that the state constitution’s right to privacy protects a right to abortion. If it’s successful, the challenge could etch a constitutional right to abortion in Georgia that would stand even if the U.S. Supreme Court ever overturns Roe v. Wade.
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