Pro-Choice protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. in the wake of recent legislation passed in Alabama banning abortions in May 2019. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
If the U.S. Supreme Court’s leaked draft of a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade becomes final, lawyers litigating the Georgia abortion ban will be looking to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
“When the Supreme Court’s decision comes down, no matter what it says, Georgia’s abortion ban does not automatically go into effect,” Sean J. Young told the Daily Report. Until Friday, he was legal director of American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, and in that capacity represented SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective and other groups challenging the six-week abortion ban Georgia enacted in 2019. U.S. District Court Steve Jones of the Northern District of Georgia blocked the enforcement of the ban with an injunction that remains in effect. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr appealed to the 11th Circuit, which stayed any ruling pending the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson, the appeal of a Mississippi law banning abortion at 15 weeks of gestation.
