Georgia Supreme Court Upholds State’s ‘Heartbeat’ Abortion Law

The state supreme court aligned state law after the US Supreme Court declared in 2022 that there was no constitutional right to abortion.

Pro-abortion rights and anti-abortion demonstrators displaying their signs in the lobby of the Georgia State Capitol building during the 35th legislative day at the Georgia State Capitol building in downtown Atlanta on March 22, 2019. Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/File via AP

The Supreme Court of Georgia voted 6–1 on Oct. 24 to uphold the state’s six-week abortion ban.

The lawsuit against the ban was one of many nationwide that have been adjudicated in the wake of restrictive abortion laws that have followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade. In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court found that there was no right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution and returned the regulation of abortion to the states.