Posted on 08/01/2022 6:21:39 PM PDT by marshmallow
Three years after inspiring heartbeat laws across the nation, Georgia's LIFE Act can be enforced.
(LifeSiteNews) – The Georgia heartbeat law that inspired a wave of similar pro-life laws across the nation can finally take effect, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
Signed into law in 2019, the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act forbids abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, except in cases of rape, incest, physical medical emergencies, and pregnancies deemed “medically futile.” It bans abortions in all other cases as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, when a baby’s heartbeat can be detected.
For reaching the vast majority of abortions based on a criteria that was intuitively understandable to the general public, heartbeat laws rapidly became one of the most popular forms of pro-life legislation, and a target of intense left-wing opposition, although they could not take effect as long as Roe v. Wade remained on the books.
The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 last month to overturn Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and the 11th Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that Dobbs “makes clear no right to abortion exists under the Constitution, so Georgia may prohibit them,” the New York Post reports.
“We are overjoyed the court has paved the way for the implementation of Georgia’s life act,” Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp responded, WTMV reports. “As mothers navigate pregnancy, birth, parenthood or alternative options to parenthood like adoptions, Georgia’s public, private and non-profit sectors stand ready to provide the resources they need to stay safe, healthy and informed.”
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When Trump ordered a pause in terrorist funding countries to have their illegals come into the US a little judge put a sanction on it to stop it, then another overruled him and another set it aside, and on and on.
People said this has got to stop. Wait for the eventual Supreme Court to rule.
Now we start with the SCOTUS and zig zag and squirm downward to the bottom. Something is wrong.
“Allow”? WTH. Oh, thank you Massa Judge fo not puttin me in the box. I be a good slave.
what does “medically futile” mean, for the lawyers here?
When I was pregnant with my second kid, I mentioned to a co-worker that was going to get an amniocentesis and she replied
“Oh good! If the kid has Downs, you can abort it”
I said “No, I will get prepared.”
“We are overjoyed the court has paved the way for the implementation of Georgia’s life act,” Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp responded,
That, ladies and gentlemen, is a bold faced lie coming from an insufferable liar.
Kemp is bought and paid for by Hollywood, Big Tech and Soros.
The Hollywood folks that have him in their hip pockets are the same ones funding Abrams and trying to get rid of him.
But they love the $1.2billion they get from the taxpayers, which is stolen by Kemp and his crew.
Years ago, they pushed for a Religious Freedom law. Hollywood threatened to leave. They never allowed a vote the first time. It was vetoed the second and never brought up again.
Kemp did sign the Heartbeat Bill. Signed at a time when no one would have ever thought Roe would be overturned. Now he’s just playing to the Conservative voters in an election year. The man can redefine POS
Supreme court decided it was a states issue. Federal judges should be ignored no matter what they say. No standing.
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