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Posted on 10/08/2024 1:48:25 PM PDT by Morgana
The Georgia Supreme Court today issued an order reinstating the heartbeat law that saves babies from abortions.
That followed a judge’s ruling declaring the state’s heartbeat law unconstitutional. The law protect unborn babies who have a detectable heartbeat.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney issued a decision declaring Georgia’s 2019 Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act or LIFE Act unconstitutional. McBurney’s decision comes after a 2023 Georgia Supreme Court decision that allowed Georgia’s heartbeat law to stand.
Today the high court put McBurney’s ruling on hold at the request of Republican state Attorney General Chris Carr, whose office is appealing.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice John J. Ellington argued that the case “should not be predetermined in the State’s favor before the appeal is even docketed.”
Clare Bartlett, executive director of the Georgia Life Alliance, applauded the ruling.
“There’s no there’s no right to privacy in the abortion process because there’s another individual involved,” Bartlett said. She added: “It goes back to protecting those who are the most vulnerable and can’t speak for themselves.”
In 2023, the Georgia Supreme Court determined that the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs was controlling and that Georgia’s LIFE Act was constitutional.
Priests for Life National Director Frank Pavone agreed with the condemnation of the judge’s decision.
“The judge ruled that ‘liberty’ in the Georgia Constitution includes a woman’s right to control her own body, but he makes no mention of the person whose body will be torn apart and disposed of as medical waste. These are people with beating hearts.
“Interestingly, the judge recognizes the ‘separate life’ once the baby in the womb reaches viability and says that life can be protected. The ruling is absurd. All life deserves to be protected.
“The ruling is also out of line with the Dobbs decision, which puts abortion policy in the hands of the people and their elected representatives, and makes clear that it is a mistake to consider abortion to be some kind of hidden right under broader and otherwise valid rights to liberty or privacy or equality.”
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Not a good time for these abortion battles right before an election.
Good!
Disagree. There is always an upcoming election.
Equally Act I like that
DEI Demand Equality for Infants
Sounds like another kick-the-can case that conservatives always seem to get. “Put on hold” is tentative at best.
How does mandating Proof of Life motivate a woman to vote Rat?
Too many women mistakenly believe that these laws are telling them what they can do to their bodies, but that’s wrong. When it comes to pregnancy, it’s actually someone else’s body we are dealing with.
Good acronym!
No one is asking the baby what he/she wants to do with their body.
Exactly, that’s violence against an innocent little child who did nothing wrong.
Please define a women’s body.
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