A Georgia judge struck down the state’s six week abortion ban on Monday.
The Fulton County superior court judge called the six week ban “arbitrary” and ruled that “liberty” in Georgia includes “the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.”
“That power is not, however, unlimited,” Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his ruling. “When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then — and only then — may society intervene.”
With the ban struck down, abortions are now legal up to viability, usually considered around 22 weeks of pregnancy, although younger babies have survived outside the womb. Under the ban, abortions had been illegal in Georgia after cardiac activity was detected, usually…
